Peter C. Newman
Peter Charles Newman, CC, CD ( born May 10, 1929 in Vienna, Austria ) is a Canadian writer and journalist who was born in Austria.
Life
Born Peta Karel Neumann In Vienna, he emigrated in 1940 with his parents from the occupied Czechoslovakia by the Third Reich as a Jewish refugee to Canada. His father secularized Oscar Neumann had been a wealthy company owner. Newman attended Upper Canada College, where he was a member of Seaton 's House, and studied at the University of Toronto.
Newman worked as a reporter for the Financial Post, became the editor of the Toronto Star and was a long time editor of Maclean's, where he led the transformation process in a weekly news magazine. To date, he writes a column for the magazine. 1978 he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1990 elevated him to the rank of Companion.
Peter C. Newman is widely respected for his profound knowledge of the Canadian economy Magnate. His book, published in 1975, The Canadian Establishment, has been widely praised by critics. He had established his reputation as an author already in the 1960s with two levels: Renegade in Power: The Diefenbaker Years ( 1963), a study of the government of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker George, who helped the statements of some critics, according to the political career of leading Tory politician to destroy, and The Distemper of Our Times (1968), a study of Canadian domestic politics during the era of Lester Pearson.
In 1999 he won for his work Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power belonging to the BC Book Prizes Hubert Evans Non- Fiction Prize.
September 12, 2005 Newman announced the release of The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister, a biography of the former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, to whom he regarded as his friend. In addition to the general announcement of details about various surprising indiscretions leaked out, and it especially came to quote Mulroney after his predecessor, Pierre Trudeau had not participated as on Canada's structure, rather than its destruction. Already on the same day Mulroney issued a press statement that he was upset and feel cheated because a confidential message would be passed by a supposed friend to the public. Shortly after the publication of the book ranged both Mulroney and Conrad Black a lawsuit against a Newman. Nevertheless, published two years later, Mulroney himself his extensive autobiography, Memoirs 1939-1993 that struck by corresponding attacks against Trudeau.
Newman was married four times, once with writer Christina McCall. He lives with his fourth wife, Alvy Newman, in Toronto, Ontario. In the Royal Canadian Navy, he served as captain.
Work
- Flame of Power: Intimate Profiles of Canada 's Greatest Businessmen. 1959
- Renegade in Power: The Diefenbaker Years. 1963
- The Distemper of Our Times: Canadian Politics in Transition. 1968
- A Nation Divided: Canada and the Coming of Pierre Trudeau. 1969
- Their turn to curtsy: your turn to bow; election handbook. 1972
- Home Country: People, Places, and Power Politics. 1973
- The Canadian Establishment: Volume One: The Old Order. 1975
- Bronfman Dynasty: The Rothschilds of the New World. 1978
- The Canadian Establishment: Volume Two: The Acquisitors. 1981
- The Establishment Man: Conrad Black, A Portrait of Power. 1982
- True North Not Strong and Free: Defending the Peaceable Kingdom in the Nuclear Age. 1983
- Drawn & Quartered: The Trudeau Years. 1984
- A History of the Hudson 's Bay Company: Volume One: Company of Adventurers. Penguin Books Canada, Markham, Ontario, 1985, ISBN 0-670-80379-0.
- A History of the Hudson 's Bay Company: Volume Two: Caesars of the Wilderness. 1987
- Empire of the Bay: An Illustrated History of the Hudson's Bay Company. 1989
- A History of the Hudson 's Bay Company: Volume Three: Merchant Princes. 1991
- Canada: The Great Lone country. 1989
- Canada 1892: Portrait of a Promised Land. 1991
- Promise of the pipeline. 1993
- Nortel, Northern Telecom: Past, Present, Future. 1995
- The Canadian Revolution: From Deference to Defiance. 1995
- Defining Moments: Dispatches from at Unfinished Revolution. 1996
- Vancouver: The Art of Living Well. 1996
- The Canadian Establishment: Volume Three: The Titans. 1998
- Sometimes a Great Nation: Will Canada Belong to the 21st Century? . 1998
- Continental Reach. 2002
- Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion and Power ( autobiography ) 2004
- The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister. M & S, Toronto 2005, ISBN 978-077-106796-9.
- Izzy: The Passionate Life and Turbulent Times of Izzy Asper, Canada's Media Mogul. 2008
- Heroes: Canadian Champions, Dark Horses, and icons. 2010
- Mavericks: Canadian Rebels, Renegades, and Anti- Heroes. 2010
- When the Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada ( original title: Michael Ignatieff: The Man In Full) 2011.