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category: Biography & Autobiography
published: Sep 2008
ISBN:9780864925220
publisher: Goose Lane Editions

Beaverbrook

A Shattered Legacy

by Jacques Poitras

tagged: rich & famous
Description

Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award and Best Atlantic Published Book Award
Shortlisted, British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and National Business Book Award

Were the Gallery's treasures gifts or loans? Was Lord Beaverbrook careless or devious? Jacques Poitras sifts through the personal correspondence, takes stock of the witnesses and testimony at the 2006 arbitration hearings, and interviews the combatants of a bitter legal battle that rocked the art world on both sides of the Atlantic. Deftly connecting the pieces of this historic jigsaw puzzle, he tells a fascinating tale peopled with an arresting cast of characters — from the self-proclaimed "master propagandist" to the present-day heirs of the Beaverbrook legacy.

About the Author
Jacques Poitras has been CBC Radio's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick since 2000. He has written numerous award-winning feature documentaries and has appeared on Radio-Canada, National Public Radio, and the BBC. His first book was the critically acclaimed The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma. He lives near Fredericton.
Awards
  • Short-listed, National Business Book Award
  • Winner, Best Atlantic Published Book Award
  • Short-listed, BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
  • Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award
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