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100	1		_aBlack, Conrad, _964341 _cBaron Black of Crossharbour.
245	1	2	_aA matter of principle / _cConrad Black.
264		1	_aNew York ; _aLondon : _bEncounter Books, _c2012.
300			_a598 pages, with 12 pages of plates : _billustrations
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"In 1993, Conrad Black was the proprietor of London's Daily Telegraph and the head of one of the world's largest newspaper groups. He completed a memoir in 1992, A Life in Progress, and "great prospects beckoned." In 2004, he was fired as chairman of Hollinger International after he and his associates were accused of fraud. Here, for the first time, Black describes his indictment, four-month trial in Chicago, partial conviction, imprisonment, and largely successful appeal. In this unflinchingly revealing and superbly written memoir, Black writes without reserve about the prosecutors who mounted a campaign to destroy him and the journalists who presumed he was guilty. Fascinating people fill these pages, from prime ministers and presidents to the social, legal, and media elite, among them: Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Jean Chretien, Rupert Murdoch, Izzy Asper, Richard Perle, Norman Podhoretz, Eddie Greenspan, Alan Dershowitz, and Henry Kissinger. Woven throughout are Black's views on big themes: politics, corporate governance, and the U.S. justice system. He is candid about highly personal subjects, including his friendships - with those who have supported and those who have betrayed him - his Roman Catholic faith, and his marriage to Barbara Amiel. And he writes about his complex relations with Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, and in particular the blow he has suffered at the hands of that nation. In this extraordinary book, Black maintains his innocence and recounts what he describes as 'the fight of and for my life.' A Matter of Principle is a riveting memoir and a scathing account of a flawed justice system"-- Provided by publisher.
600	1	4	_aBlack, Conrad, _964341 _cBaron Black of Crossharbour.
600	1	4	_aBlack, Conrad _xTrials, litigation, etc. _9120672 _cBaron Black of Crossharbour
650		0	_aPublishers and publishing _zCanada _9120673 _xBiography.
650		0	_aNewspaper publishing _zCanada _xHistory _y20th century. _9120674
650		0	_aNewspapers _xOwnership _940941
650		0	_aJournalists _zCanada _9120675 _xBiography.
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