Beaverbrook

by Anne Chisholm, Michael Davie

A biography of the press baron, cabinet minister, and friend of the famous describes Beaverbrook's womanizing, vendettas, dubious financial dealings, political aberrations, and more.

Genres: Biography, History, Canada, Politics, Business

590 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1992

About the author

Anne Chisholm is a biographer and critic who has also worked in journalism and publishing. Her first biography, Nancy Cunard (1979), won the Silver PEN prize for non-fiction; in 1992 the biography of Lord Beaverbrook she wrote jointly with her husband, Michael Davie, was runner up for the Hawthornden prize.

Reviews

[Ipswichblade · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very readable biography of Lord Beaverbrook who died in 1964 after a remarkable life as a newspaper owner and politician

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting biography about a small town Nova Scotia king that rose to become a Fleet Street press baron and an influential figure in not one but two World Wars, and the decades in between.

[Matthew Kilburn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Detailed, perceptive, humane in its assessment of a difficult and dominating man.