A biography of the press baron, cabinet minister, and friend of the famous describes Beaverbrook's womanizing, vendettas, dubious financial dealings, political aberrations, and more.
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From Publishers Weekly
This exhaustively researched biography of the powerful British press baron and cabinet minister (1879-1964) candidly describes Beaverbrook's dark side as well as his successes. The book's immersion in the intricacies of British political history, however, may limit its interest to Anglophiles. Husband-and-wife team Davie ( Titanic ) and Chisholm ( Nancy Cunard ) reconstruct Beaverbrook's upbringing as Max Aitken in Canada and suggest that his passion for inside information, which he displayed as a member of Churchill's wartime cabinet, had roots in his early entrepreneurial practices. He befriended Rudyard Kipling and Prime Minister Bonar Law; and had romances with writer Rebecca West and, in 1931, with Dorothy Schiff Hall, who later resumed her maiden name and became publisher of the New York Post . He used newspapers like the Daily Express to crusade for protectionism and to "emancipate" the class-conscious British society in the 1930s. The authors detail Beaverbrook's isolationism during Hitler's rise, his championing of Stalin during WW II, his influence on postwar governments and his contributions to several memoirs and histories of his era. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The remarkable career of Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, is chronicled in this scholarly, well-researched work. Basing their work on official British and Canadian papers, memoirs, and other archival sources, the authors restructure the extraordinary life of this statesman and newspaper magnate. Born in 1879, the son of a New Brunswick minister, Beaverbrook accumulated a small fortune before arriving in England in 1910. The old-boy network served him well as he quickly established himself as a member of Parliament. Highlighted are his relationships with Rudyard Kipling, the Mountbattens, and Winston Churchill. His role in Soviet relations throughout his lifetime and his contributions to the war cabinet in World War II are particularly noteworthy. An excellent supplement to A.J.P. Taylor's Beaverbrook ( LJ 8/72), this book is highly recommended to academic libraries collecting in modern European history.
- Mary Hemmings, Univ. of Calgary Law Lib., Alberta
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Mary Hemmings, Univ. of Calgary Law Lib., Alberta
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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