Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy - Softcover

Poitras, Jacques

 
9780864925220: Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0864925220 ISBN 13: 9780864925220
Verlag: GOOSE LANE ED, 2008

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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.

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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.

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Were the Gallery's treasures gifts or loans? Was Lord Beaverbrook careless or devious? In this national bestseller, Jacques Poitras sifts through the personal correspondence, takes stock of the witnesses and testimony, and interviews the combatants in 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.

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Were the Gallery's treasures gifts or loans? Was Lord Beaverbrook careless or devious? In this national bestseller, Jacques Poitras sifts through the personal correspondence, takes stock of the witnesses and testimony, and interviews the combatants in 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.

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Verlag
GOOSE LANE ED
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0864925220
ISBN 13 
9780864925220
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
318
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