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JACQUES POITRAS is a journalist and author of five books of non-fiction, including Irving vs. Irving: Canada's Feuding Billionaires and the Stories They Won't Tell, a national best-seller shortlisted for the National Business Book Award; and Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada's Energy Future, shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the John W. Dafoe Book Prize. He is also the author of The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy, and Imaginary Line: Life on an Unfinished Border. Poitras lives in Fredericton and has been the provincial affairs reporter for CBC News in New Brunswick since 2000. ...more

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	Irving vs Irving 3.61 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada's Energy Future 3.91 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imaginary Line: Life on an Unfinished Border 4.13 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I loved this book. The plot petered out a bit at the end and went in a few unusual directions, like the author was trying to do and say too much. But it is a great and perceptive study of post-First World War Canada with some wonderful a-ha moments.
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“Neil Reynolds was one of the best persons who ever went through that place down there," J.K. reflected when he spoke to me two decades later.
"We liked him a great deal," interjected J.K.'s son Jim.
"The guy had great talent, great vision," J.K. added. "Mr. Reynolds hit the ball out of the ballpark."
In August of 1994, Neil Reynolds was fired.”
― Jacques Poitras, Irving vs. Irving: Canada's Feuding Billionaires and the Stories They Won't Tell

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