Colourful, comprehensive, and masterfully written, this is the third and final volume in a major history of Canada by one of our its respected thinkers and historians.
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.
"Black contemplates his home and native land with unabashed pride."
—Montreal Gazette
"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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