An edition of Mavericks
(2010)
Mavericks
Canadian rebels, renegades and antiheroes
1st ed.
by Peter C. Newman
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Biographies, Biography, Canada, biographyPlaces
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Mavericks: Canadian rebels, renegades and antiheroes
2010, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
- 1st ed.
155468420X 9781554684205
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Table of Contents
Pt. 1. Business. A hitchhiker's guide to the mind of Conrad Black ; Sir George Simpson: the birchbark Napoleon ; The world according to Garth ; Sir Herbert Holt: the tycoon who tried to buy Canada ; The murder of Harry Oakes: why nobody cried ; Peter Nygard and his twenty-five best naked friends ; My adventures in Bronfman country ; Victor Rice: how to fire fifty-two thousand workers ; Robert Campeau caught the biggest fish ; Nelson Skalbania: not a poor country in the Balkans ; K.C. Irving: how could he top the list? ; The Eatons: spoiled kids who destroyed an empire ; Lord Strathcona: Lord of all he surveyed
and then some ; Bud McDougald: the tycoon who never gave an interview ; The day Confederation Life went bust.
Pt. 2. Politics. Tom d'Aquino: the man who sold the farm ; Brian Mulroney: wooing New York's millions ; René Lévesque: meeting the Wall Street cowboys ; Kim Campbell: ah, we hardly knew ye ; Louis Riel: the mad rebel who was our founding father ; Jack Pickersgill: "Sailor Jack" and the politics of patronage ; Bill Vander Zalm: the kamikaze premier ; Lucien Bouchard: revolution east ; David Radler: the one who got away ; Kinky Friedman: the bad-ass country singer ; John Diefenbaker: renegade out of power.
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Includes bibliographical references ([359]-363) and index.
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