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

From the reviews of the original edition: "Exhaustive and strangely riveting... a fine book."-"Toronto Sun" "Black's wheelings, dealings and bluffs make for entertaining reading."-"Ottawa Citizen" "Lively, thoroughly researched and fair... Siklos writes with confidence about Black's often convoluted financial operations."-Times Literary Supplement (UK) "From the Hardcover edition."

In 1985, Conrad Black was a forty-year-old financier with a passion for publishing and a string of corporate coups and controversies behind him in his native Canada. Since then he has assembled one of the world's major newspaper groups, with interests in more than 300 titles including London's Daily Telegraph, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Jerusalem Post and many Canadian titles. This book by the media writer for Toronto's Financial Post looks behind the scenes at the deals that shaped an empire, and analyzes the complex figure at its head.