Beaverbrook Jacques Poitras

Name: Beaverbrook By Jacques Poitras
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Beaverbrook by Jacques Poitras

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Beaverbrook Summary

Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy by Jacques Poitras

Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award and Best Atlantic Published Book Award
Shortlisted, British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and National Business Book Award

Were the Gallery's treasures gifts or loans? Was Lord Beaverbrook careless or devious? Jacques Poitras sifts through the personal correspondence, takes stock of the witnesses and testimony at the 2006 arbitration hearings, and interviews the combatants of a bitter legal battle that rocked the art world on both sides of the Atlantic. Deftly connecting the pieces of this historic jigsaw puzzle, he tells a fascinating tale peopled with an arresting cast of characters from the self-proclaimed "master propagandist" to the present-day heirs of the Beaverbrook legacy.

Beaverbrook Reviews

"Riveting." * Manchester Guardian *
"Take a cantankerous patriarch, throw in some very famous paintings and a family at war and you have the ingredients of a gripping thriller. In Jacques Poitras's skillful hands they become something more: a wise meditation on a friendship that went very wrong." -- Elizabeth Renzetti * The Globe and Mail *
"A journalistic tour-de-force." * BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction *
"Jacques Poitras has written a delicious story about the battle for Lord Beaverbrook's paintings. He has used a brilliant cast of characters a mix of canny homegrown New Brunswickers and powerful British aristocrats to pull together an important work of social and political history. Yes, this is a big, important book, but it's also a helluva lot of fun to read." -- Stevie Cameron

About Jacques Poitras

Jacques Poitras has been CBC Radio's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick since 2000. He has written numerous award-winning feature documentaries and has appeared on Radio-Canada, National Public Radio, and the BBC. His first book was the critically acclaimed The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma. He lives near Fredericton.

Additional information

Sku

GOR011907178

ISBN 13

9780864925220

ISBN 10

0864925220

Title

Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy by Jacques Poitras

Author

Jacques Poitras

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Goose Lane Editions

Year published

2008-09-18

Number of pages

318

Prizes

Winner of Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award 2008 (Canada) Winner of Best Atlantic Published Book Award 2008 (Canada) Short-listed for BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2008 (Canada) Short-listed for National Business Book Award 2008 (Canada)

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