Lord Beaverbrook / by David Adams Richards.
Lord Beaverbrook / by David Adams Richards.
By
:
Richards, David Adams, 1950-
Publication Date
:
2008
Publication Information
:
Toronto : Penguin Canada,
Physical Description
:
177 p.
Subject Term
:
Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Newspaper publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Philanthropists -- Biography.
Businessmen -- Canada -- Biography.
Geographic Term
:
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Series
:
EXTRAORDINARY CANADIANS
EXTRAORDINARY CANADIANS.
Bibliography Note
:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary
:
Press baron, entrepreneur, art collector, and wartime minister in Churchill's cabinet, Max Aitken was a colonial Canadian extraordinaire. Rising from a hardscrabble childhood in New Brunswick, he became a millionaire at age 25, earned the title of Lord Beaverbrook at 38, and by age 40 was the most influential newspaperman in the world. Fiercely loyal to the British Empire, he was nonetheless patronized by London's upper class, whose country he worked tirelessly to protect during World War II. David Adams Richards, one of Canada's preeminent novelists, celebrates Beaverbrook's heroic achievements in this perceptive interpretive biography.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780670066148
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number |
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Bonavista | Adult Bio | Adult Biography | B B38R |
Fortune | Adult Bio | Adult Biography | B B38R |
Harbour Grace | Adult Bio | Adult Biography | B B38R |
Marystown | Adult Bio | Adult Biography | B B38R |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | ADULT BIO - BASEMENT | Adult Biography - Basement | B B38R |