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Conrad Black

Conrad Black is the author of biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard M. Nixon, was the publisher of the London Telegraph newspapers and Spectator, and founded the National Post of Canada. He has been a life peer in the British House of Lords as Lord Black of Crossharbour since 2001.

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The Good Fight

Black: Justice Denied for DeLay

The odds against an indicted person in America? 99.5-to-one. Conrad Black on the prosecutocracy’s reign of terror.

Conrad Black

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Stop the Murdoch Witch Hunt

Conrad Black warns against Eliot Spitzer’s calls for an unfounded U.S. prosecution of Rupert Murdoch.

Conrad Black

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Murdoch's Italian Offensive

The compulsively aggressive Australian is a great businessman, writes press baron and Rupert frenemy Conrad Black. But his war against Silvio Berlusconi is unlikely to dislodge the prime minister.

Conrad Black

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I Was Right

Many have blamed Conrad Black for the troubles of Sun-Times Media Group. But as the company he built declares bankruptcy, Black, writing from prison, tells how he was prevented from selling the company at a price that, in hindsight, looks very rich.

Conrad Black

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Bring It On, Michael Wolff!

Press baron and Rupert frenemy Conrad Black responds to Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff’s attacks.

Conrad Black

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My Trial With Blago's Lawyer

Can Eddie Genson's fireworks get a fair trial for the hate figure of the hour?

Conrad Black

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The Rupert I Know

Longtime press baron and Murdoch frenemy Conrad Black on what Michael Wolff got wrong in his new biography of the media titan.

Conrad Black

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America’s Irrational Lurch to the Left

Why is Obama winning, even though most of his countrymen are ideologically closer to McCain?

Conrad Black

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Why The Right Should Leave FDR Alone

Franklin D. Roosevelt and his policies that led the country out of the Great Depression have been unfairly maligned.

Conrad Black

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McCain Missed a Trick

When he interrupted his campaign to return to DC to manage the economic crisis, McCain was onto a winning streak. But he blew it.

Conrad Black

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