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Raymond J. de Souza: Conrad Black's history of the world is magnificent
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The May long weekend — the sovereign’s official birthday — brings forth recommended lists for summer reading. An excellent time, I would suggest, for Post readers to discover Conrad Black the Historian — he has longed earned the capital “H.”
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My Saturday page-mate has done many things on both sides of the newspaper business, as proprietor and commentator. And he has been an esteemed historian for a half-century; we are soon to mark the 50th anniversary of his authoritative biography of Maurice Duplessis, the titanic premier of Quebec.
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(itals) Duplessis (itals) was a substantial work at more than 600 pages, but Black was only getting warmed up. His celebrated biographies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, as well as his much-needed history of Canada, (itals) Rise to Greatness (itals), all weighed in at more than a thousand pages. That can be intimidating for the reader, but Black has the happy talent of making a thousand pages read with the liveliness of his thousand-word columns.
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