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Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy
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Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy

Jacques Poitras
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Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award and Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and National Business Book AwardWere 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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Country
Canada
Date
1 September 2008
Pages
318
ISBN
9780864925220

Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award and Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and National Business Book AwardWere 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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Country
Canada
Date
1 September 2008
Pages
318
ISBN
9780864925220

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