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Conrad and Lady Black - Dancing on the Edge (Paperback, New Ed)
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Conrad and Lady Black - Dancing on the Edge (Paperback, New Ed)
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List price R360
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Discovery Miles 3 370
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The riveting tale of how the wanabee aristo Conrad Black and his
social-mountaineering wife Barbara gulled their way into the City,
the Tory party, Wall Street and High Society. This new paperback
edition will be fully updated to include details of Black's
high-profile trial for corporate fraud, sure to claim international
attention. The rise and fall of the media tycoon Conrad Black is
rivalled in its spectacular extravagance only by the machinations
of his social-mountaineering wife, Barbara Amiel. Together their
story of overweening ambition and greed is a modern-day classic of
hubris. There is no bolder or better-informed chronicler of the
follies of the rich and powerful than Tom Bower. Fearless in the
approach which has brought him accolades for his gripping exposes
of Robert Maxwell, Tiny Rowland, Mohammed Fayed and Richard
Branson, Bower reveals how the Blacks financed a billionaire's
lifestyle and won friends and influence in London and New York.
Born into considerable wealth in Canada, Conrad Black bought and
sold (but never effectively managed) several businesses, from
mining and tractors to broadcasting companies and newspapers. In
1985 he bought the Telegraph group in London, where very little was
known of the controversy over his past financial dealings. In 1992
he married Barbara Amiel, who later famously said, 'I have an
extravagance that knows no bounds'. Besotted with his wife, he
began living way beyond his means. Fabulous parties, jewellery,
clothes, private jets and homes followed. In 2003 an independent
report in America accused him of 'outright fraud', 'ethical
corruption' and 'corporate kleptocracy' - allegations that he will
vigorously deny at his trial in Chicago in 2007. This edition will
be updated to include the full story of the trial in all its
sensational detail. Tom Bower's book, based on over 150 interviews
with bankers, politicians, celebrities, power-brokers and close
friends, is packed with intimate revelations. It is a hugely
entertaining account of gullibility in high places.
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