In 1985 Conrad Black was a 40-year-old financier with a passion for publishing and a string of corporate coups and controversies behind him in his native Canada. With military precision, Black set about acquiring newspapers and the influence that goes along with them, amassing in just three years interests in more than 300 titles. This book presents the inside story of Black's relentless quest to become the world's leading press baron.

Shades of Black: Conrad Black and the World's Fastest Growing Press Empire

Siklos, Richard

History

McClelland & Stewart Ltd.

Since 1985, Conrad Black - publisher, lawyer and financier - has assembled one of the world's major newspaper groups with interests in over 300 titles. Siklos's biography examines the deals that shaped an empire and offers an account of the outspoken, hyper-literate mogul and his media obsession.

Shades of Black

William Heinemann

Literature & Fiction

RANDOM HOUSE UK

At the turn of the new millennium, Conrad Black was living the dream he had imagined for his entire life: he was married to a beautiful, intelligent woman who shared his political outlook and love of a lavish lifestyle; a Gulfstream jet ferried the couple among palatial homes in London, Toronto, Palm Beach, and New York; and he owned, among many other newspapers, the Daily Telegraph in London, England, the Jerusalem Post, and the Chicago Sun-Times. He would soon be granted a peerage and a seat in Britain’s House of Lords, his parties and company boards were packed with luminaries, and he was planning to write a biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt that would build his stature and presence in the United States, the country he worshipped. What a difference four years make. Today, Conrad Black’s career and reputation are in free fall. He has been kicked out of Hollinger International, his main U.S. company, by its board of directors, and his prize possession, the Daily Telegraph, has been sold out from under him. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the FBI are investigating, and lawsuits are flying in every direction. In this definitive biography of the most famous Canadian businessperson of this generation, Richard Siklos delivers a riveting account of Black’s life and, for the first time, the inside story of his humiliating downfall, drawing on scores of new interviews conducted in four countries and on newly disclosed materials. It is the story Siklos started to write in the 1995 edition of his bestselling biography of Conrad Black, Shades of Black, and now tells in full, gripping detail in this completely revised, updated, and vastly expanded edition, now subtitled Conrad Black – His Rise and Fall.

Shades of Black: Conrad Black - His Rise and Fall

Business & Money

MCCLELLAND STEWART

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