Masterful, ambitious, and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians--a book every Canadian should own.
CONRAD BLACK is the author of widely acclaimed biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon. He was for many years the head of the Argus, Hollinger, and Telegraph Newspaper groups. Black is a financier, and a columnist in the National Post, which he founded, and the National Review Online and The Huffington Post. Black served three years in US federal prisons tutoring fellow prisoners for their secondary school matriculations, although all charges against him were eventually abandoned, rejected by jurors, or vacated by the US Supreme Court, and he won the largest libel settlement in Canadian history from his original accusers. He has been a member of the British House of Lords since 2001. He lives in Toronto. The author lives in Toronto.
• "Rise to Greatness traces the political and economic history of
Canada over the last four centuries. . . . Black contemplates his
home and native land with unabashed pride." --Montreal Gazette
• ". . . [B]owls the reader along like an adventure story. .
. . This book never bores. . . . [T]he élan of a writer at the top
of his game, covering his subject with a staggering degree or
erudition. . . . The narrative positively sparkles with ironic
witticisms and aperçus that make this book as much a work of
literature as of history." – Andrew Roberts, National Post
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