Conrad Black
Auteur van Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom
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Conrad Black is the author of widely acclaimed biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon, and a strategic history of the United States. He was for many years the head of the Argus, Hollinger, and Telegraph Newspaper groups. Black is a financier, and a columnist in toon meer the National Post, which he founded, and the National Review Online, and The Huffington Post. He has been a member of the British House of Lords since 2001. He lives in Toronto. toon minder
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Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership (2013) 69 exemplaren
Rise to Greatness, Volume 1: Colony (1000-1867): The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present (2017) 13 exemplaren
Rise to Greatness, Volume 3: Realm (1949-2017): The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present (2017) 11 exemplaren
Rise to Greatness, Volume 2: Dominion (1867-1949): The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present (2017) 11 exemplaren
Forgotten History: Civil Rights in Canada 2 exemplaren
Duplessis, Lascension 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Black, Conrad
- Officiële naam
- Black, Conrad Moffat
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Baron Black of Crossharbour
- Geboortedatum
- 1944-08-25
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Canada (birth)
UK - Geboorteplaats
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Woonplaatsen
- Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, Orlando, Florida, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
London, England, UK
Palm Beach, Florida, USA - Opleiding
- McGill University (M.A.|1973)
Laval University Faculty of Law (1970)
York University Osgoode Hall Law School
Carleton University (History|1965) - Beroepen
- publisher
- Organisaties
- Hollinger International
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Life Peerage (Baron Black of Crossharbour, 2001)
- Agent
- Morton Janklow
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom door Conrad Black
Fascinating book on one of America's top five Presidents.
A detailed look into the rise of the United States from its days as a colony to Barack Obama. Clears up alot of the myths and polarization of American politics and foreign policy. As a someone who gets a lot of his American History from TV and movies it clears up certain inaccuracies. Mr. Black is known in his columns for his fifty dollar words and the book is no different but the reader will definitely increase his vocabulary.
Good read. A bit too pompous, but that is not surprising. It really could have used a fact checker.
This book is a one-volume beast - as such a titanic and misconstrued (both positively and negatively) figure in American history deserves.
He is rightly a sphinx, and this is an excellent one-volume study which clears up much of the history concerning the time, revealing his deft political maneuvering, the economic programs which sometimes flopped, but the majority of which were astounding successes and still in use today (e.g. massive electricity projects, including the Hoover Dam), and revitalized the American economy without resorting to the dangerous extremes of totalitarianism, and his brilliant wartime successes and excellent choice of generals.
His faults are discussed in equal measure, giving time to his emotional insensitivity to Eleanor, his vaguely dictatorial plan to 'pack' the Supreme Court, and the Japanese internment.
This is an astonishing book, and one, if I may humbly offer, should be read more often in these uncertain times.
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He is rightly a sphinx, and this is an excellent one-volume study which clears up much of the history concerning the time, revealing his deft political maneuvering, the economic programs which sometimes flopped, but the majority of which were astounding successes and still in use today (e.g. massive electricity projects, including the Hoover Dam), and revitalized the American economy without resorting to the dangerous extremes of totalitarianism, and his brilliant wartime successes and excellent choice of generals.
His faults are discussed in equal measure, giving time to his emotional insensitivity to Eleanor, his vaguely dictatorial plan to 'pack' the Supreme Court, and the Japanese internment.
This is an astonishing book, and one, if I may humbly offer, should be read more often in these uncertain times.
… (meer)
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