The #1 national bestseller now revised and updated with a new Epilogue.
Now aged 75, Peter C. Newman at last tells the story of his
stranger-than-fiction life. Try to keep up as we follow his many lives:
as a pampered child in a Czech chateau; a Jewish kid in short pants
being machine-gunned by Nazi fighter planes on the beach at Biarritz, en
route to the last ship to escape from France in 1940; as a refugee on an
Ontario farm; as an outsider on a scholarship at Upper Canada College;
as a Financial Post journalist, then an author whose Renegade in
Power made Canadian politics dramatic and disrespectfully exciting for
the first time; as the man who revealed the secrets of the rulers of the
Canadian business world in The Canadian Establishment, and other huge
business success stories, including The Establishment Man, on Conrad
Black; or the millionaire who turned his back on business books and
tackled Canadian history (Company of Adventurers and other triumphs),
in a career where his work has dominated the bestseller lists in
politics, business, history, and current affairs.
In the midst of all this were his years at the Toronto Star and
Maclean's where, as editor, he took the magazine weekly - a huge
accomplishment. He is still a legend there, where his columns continue
to run.
He knew and wrote about every prime minister from Louis St. Laurent to
Paul Martin and every prominent Canadian - hero or villain - in between.
Yet his most interesting character is - Peter C. Newman. Incredibly,
this central figure known to millions of Canadians sees himself as a
perennial outsider. In personal terms, the rich little Czech boy whose
nannies never stayed talks frankly about his marriages and the women he
has known before his ultimate marriage to his beloved Alvy. His
enthusiasms - from jazz to the Canadian Navy, not to mention his
adventures on his beloved sailboat - make for a rich portrait of an
astonishingcharacter, one who never stops being controversial.
