Big Men Fear Me (ebook)

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The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North Americas most influential media moguls.When George McCullagh boughtThe GlobeandThe Mail and Empireand merged them into theGlobe and Mail, the charismatic 31-year-old high school dropout had already made millions on the stock market. It was just the beginning of the meteoric rise of a man widely expected to one day be prime minister of Canada. But the charismatic McCullagh had a dark side. Dogged by the bipolar disorder that destroyed his political ambitions and eventually killed him, he was all but written out of history. It was a loss so significant that journalist Robert Fulford has called McCullaghs biography one of the great unwritten books in Canadian historyuntil now.InBig Men Fear Me, award-winning historian Mark Bourrie tells the remarkable story of McCullaghs inspirational rise and devastating fall, and with it sheds new light on the resurgence of populist politics, challenges to collective action, and attacks on the free press that characterize our own tumultuous era.Praise forBush RunnerMark Bourrie beautifully describes Radisson as the Forrest Gump of his time well-written compelling.Washington TimesA dark adventure story that sweeps the reader through a world filled with surprises. The book is compelling, authoritative, not a little disturbingand a significant contribution to the history of 17th-century North America.Ken McGoogan,Globe and MailA remarkable biography of an even more remarkable 17th-century individual Beautifully written and endlessly thought-provoking.MacleansHighly entertaining reading fascinating an engaging achievement.Winnipeg Free PressBourries writing is grounded in a strong sense of place, partly because of his own extensive knowledge of the land and partly because of Radissons descriptive storytelling abilities a valuable and rare glimpse into 17th-century North America.Canadian Geographic