Conrad Black: Before he was a businessman he was a writer
Conrad Black has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in a U.S. prison. In the wake of his sentence, the talk around the nation's water coolers understandably surrounds the man's life in business -- and the misdeed he committed to earn this jail time. Yet Canadians would do well to remember that the man headed to jail is also an accomplished author. His reputation as such preceded his rise to corporate power -- and it will likewise survive his fall.
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Armed with his powerful intellect, his cattle-prod invective and the ornate prose that can make him sound like an incensed 18th-century pamphleteer, Conrad Black has from the beginning of his authorial career chosen subjects that have given him an advantageous platform for his conservative views.
He established his bona fides as a historian in 1977 with Duplessis, a revisionist life of the mid-20th century Quebec premier. With that biography, he also began his career as a combative iconoclast eager to blast away at the received wisdom of the Canadian intellectual establishment and the country's political left.
Later, using the same intellectual framework, he expanded his targets to include commentators and activists in the United States whom he pummeled for their misreading of two American presidents....
Read entire article at George Galt, Literary Review Of Canada in the National Post
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Armed with his powerful intellect, his cattle-prod invective and the ornate prose that can make him sound like an incensed 18th-century pamphleteer, Conrad Black has from the beginning of his authorial career chosen subjects that have given him an advantageous platform for his conservative views.
He established his bona fides as a historian in 1977 with Duplessis, a revisionist life of the mid-20th century Quebec premier. With that biography, he also began his career as a combative iconoclast eager to blast away at the received wisdom of the Canadian intellectual establishment and the country's political left.
Later, using the same intellectual framework, he expanded his targets to include commentators and activists in the United States whom he pummeled for their misreading of two American presidents....