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Extraordinary Canadians Lord Beaverbrook

Extraordinary Canadians Lord Beaverbrook - Extraordinary Canadians

Hardback (18 Mar 2008)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780670066148
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Imprint: Penguin Books
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Language: English
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 286g
Height: 202mm
Width: 137mm
Spine width: 19mm