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A life in progress
Book by Black, Conrad
522 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1993
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About the author
Conrad Black
51 books80 followersConrad Black is a Canadian-born British peer, and former publisher of the London Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post, and founder of Canada's National Post.
He is a columnist and regular contributor to several publications, including National Review Online, The New Criterion, The National Interest, American Greatness, the New York Sun, and the National Post.
As an acclaimed author and biographer, Lord Black has published comprehensive histories of both Canada and the United States, as well as authoritative biographies of Maurice Duplessis, and presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and Donald Trump.
Lord Black is also a television and radio commentator and a sporadic participant in the current affairs programming of CNN, Fox News, CTV, CBC, BBC, and Radio Canada.
He is a columnist and regular contributor to several publications, including National Review Online, The New Criterion, The National Interest, American Greatness, the New York Sun, and the National Post.
As an acclaimed author and biographer, Lord Black has published comprehensive histories of both Canada and the United States, as well as authoritative biographies of Maurice Duplessis, and presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and Donald Trump.
Lord Black is also a television and radio commentator and a sporadic participant in the current affairs programming of CNN, Fox News, CTV, CBC, BBC, and Radio Canada.
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December 8, 2020
Not an autobiography as I expected but a tedious litany of business maneuvers without any personal thoughts or descriptions of people typical of certain males focused on the job at hand. That sounds hard but perhaps that's how he is. The details one expects do not materialize in his fast forging through business life - one finds out he married but little else about the family, and except for the agony of losing his mother one might think the female world was non-existent to him.
He appears to like Nixon but perhaps that's an offshoot from being allowed access after Nixon's depredations of the US constitution.
But then I abandoned the book after his mother died...I really didn't care what happened next on the world stage of plotting takeovers, share buying and corporate plots.
And yet I ploughed through the Milken book and the Enron book so perhaps it's the style of writing that didn't attract me...
He appears to like Nixon but perhaps that's an offshoot from being allowed access after Nixon's depredations of the US constitution.
But then I abandoned the book after his mother died...I really didn't care what happened next on the world stage of plotting takeovers, share buying and corporate plots.
And yet I ploughed through the Milken book and the Enron book so perhaps it's the style of writing that didn't attract me...
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March 3, 2011I have put this book on my "not to read" shelf to see if I can identify a book that I am not interested in and don't plan to buy or read.
But it shows up as "to read".
This is an alternative to pretending to have read it and giving it a lone star review.
I don't want Mr Black to take this personally. I am just making an example of him. As if he can't do this adequately himself.
I would look more sympathetically at a book called "A Life in Regress", if he writes one.
But it shows up as "to read".
This is an alternative to pretending to have read it and giving it a lone star review.
I don't want Mr Black to take this personally. I am just making an example of him. As if he can't do this adequately himself.
I would look more sympathetically at a book called "A Life in Regress", if he writes one.
July 24, 2014
(read this before Goodreads, added this review years after reading the book)
Probably enjoyed it.
Probably enjoyed it.
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