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Lord Beaverbrook (Extraordinary Canadians) Hardcover – 14 Dec. 2011
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- Print length177 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPenguin Global
- Publication date14 Dec. 2011
- Dimensions13.97 x 1.91 x 20.57 cm
- ISBN-100670066141
- ISBN-13978-0670066148
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- Publisher : Penguin Global (14 Dec. 2011)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 177 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0670066141
- ISBN-13 : 978-0670066148
- Dimensions : 13.97 x 1.91 x 20.57 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 2,871,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 932 in Canadian Historical Biographies
- 12,595 in Business Biographies & Memoirs (Books)
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David Adams Richards was the ideal choice to portray Max. As a novelist, his approach to Aitken's life bears an intimacy few historians possess. A native of Beaverbrook's home town, he has a fine writer's touch for bringing Max Aitken to life. The author's style is well-tuned to the personality of his subject. Aitken's career seems to have left him little time for reflection, there was always something else to accomplish.
Aitken's drive for success emerged early - he started a newspaper at 13. After a short term as an office boy in a law office, he moved to Halifax, where he came under the tutelage of John Stairs, who taught him financial matters. A somewhat shady business affair led him to leave Canada for Britain. There, he moved upward with amazing speed to earn a Knighthood in 1911. The outbreak of WWI prompted the Canadian government to put him in charge of an archive of Canadian activities in the conflict. Not a record-keeper, Max used the role to promote Canada's role in the war. Before the Armistice was signed, Max Aitken had become Lord Beaverbrook - title taken from the region near his home.
In the interwar years Aitken had his foot in two, related realms. Intelligence and propaganda were closely related in those days. But his other interest lay with the newspaper business, and his takeover of the 'Express" papers rejuvenated the chain. Among other causes it promoted was Free Trade among the members of the British Empire. As a Canadian, Max had suffered a good many snubs and sneers for being a "Colonial", but his wish for equal status really was based on economic issues. The culmination of all these activities, of course, was the appointment of newspaper baron Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, to being in charge of aircraft production shortly after the breakout of WWII. How incongruous - a publisher doing manufacturing? On reflection, the answer is dead easy. Aircraft production requires organisation and management skills. Max Aitken had demonstrated such abilities from an early age. This is a little giant of a book about a little giant of a man. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

