Peter C. Newman

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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 in Vienna as Peta Karel Neumann , he and his parents emigrated to Canada in 1940 from Czechoslovakia, which was occupied by the Third Reich, as a Jewish refugee . His secularized father, Oscar Neumann, had been a wealthy business owner. Newmans 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, then became editor of the Toronto Star and long-time editor of Maclean’s , where he directed its transformation process into a weekly news magazine. To this day he writes a column for this magazine. In 1978 he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1990 he was promoted to the rank of Companion.

Peter C. Newman is widely respected for his in-depth knowledge of Canadian business tycoons. His 1975 book, The Canadian Establishment , received widespread critical acclaim. He had already cemented his reputation as an author in the 1960s with two works: Renegade in Power: The Diefenbaker Years (1963), a study of the government of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker , which, according to some critics, helped the political career of the leading Tory Politician, and The Distemper of Our Times (1968), an examination of Canadian domestic politics during Lester Pearson's era .

1999 he won for his work Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power to the BC Book Prizes belonging Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize .

On September 12, 2005, Newman announced the release of The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister , a biography of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , whom he considered his friend. Details of several surprising indiscretions leaked out, including a quote from Mulroney, which said that his predecessor, Pierre Trudeau , was not involved in the construction of Canada, but in the destruction of Canada. On the same day, Mulroney published a press release that he was distraught and felt betrayed because a confidential message from a supposed friend had been passed on to the public. Shortly after the book was published, both Mulroney and Conrad Black filed lawsuits against Newman. Regardless of this, Mulroney himself published his extensive autobiography, Memoirs 1939-1993 , two years later , which attracted attention through corresponding attacks against Trudeau.

Newman was married four times, including one to the writer Christina McCall. He lives in Toronto , Ontario with his fourth wife, Alvy Newman . He served as a captain in the Royal Canadian Navy .

plant

  • 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 Bay Company: Volume One: Company of Adventurers . Penguin Books Canada, Markham, Ontario 1985, ISBN 0-670-80379-0 .
  • A History of the Hudson Bay Company: Volume Two: Caesars of the Wilderness . 1987
  • Empire of the Bay: An Illustrated History of the Hudson Bay Company . 1989
  • A History of the Hudson Bay Company: Volume Three: Merchant Princes . 1991
  • Canada: The Great Lone Land . 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 an 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
  • Canada: The Land that Shapes Us . 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.

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  1. ↑ archive.gg.ca/honours/
personal data
SURNAME Newman, Peter C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newman, Peter Charles; Neumann, Petâ Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria