Think that Conrad Black was successful?  Think he was bad?  In this interview with David Richards Adams, the award winning Canadian author and biographer who grew up just blocks from Beaverbrook's childhood home, Brad finds out what success looked like at the turn of the century.  Turns out, not a whole lot different than it does now, including the scandal and betrayal.  Even so, none of that takes away from the larger than life character that Lord Beaverbrook became.  More importantly, it shows the type of man that it took to shape Canada into what it's become today.

Links:

Wikipedia: David Adams Richards

Books:

Extraordinary Canadians Lord Beaverbrook

The Lost Highway

The Friends of Meager Fortune

Nights Below Station Street

For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down

Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace

Hope In The Desperate Hour

Playing the Inside Out

Mercy Among the Children

River of the Brokenhearted