"The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most influential yet unknown publisher and aspirational politician. When George McCullagh bought The Globe and The Mail and Empire and merged them into the Globe and Mail, today still one of Canada's preeminent daily newspapers, the 31-year-old high school dropout had already made millions on the stock market after the Crash of 1929 and the construction of his glamorous suburban Toronto estate was just the beginning of the meteoric rise of a man widely expected to one day serve as the country's prime minister. But the…mehr
"The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most influential yet unknown publisher and aspirational politician. When George McCullagh bought The Globe and The Mail and Empire and merged them into the Globe and Mail, today still one of Canada's preeminent daily newspapers, the 31-year-old high school dropout had already made millions on the stock market after the Crash of 1929 and the construction of his glamorous suburban Toronto estate was just the beginning of the meteoric rise of a man widely expected to one day serve as the country's prime minister. But the self-made McCullagh had a dark side. Dogged by the bipolar disorder that destroyed his political ambitions and eventually killed him, the man who would be minister was all but written out of history, erased from the archives of his own newspaper, a loss so significant that journalist Robert Fulford has called McCullagh's biography "one of the great unwritten books in Canadian history"--until now. In Big Men Fear Me, award-winning journalist and historian Mark Bourrie tells the remarkable story of McCullagh's inspirational rise and devastating fall."--
Mark Bourrie is an Ottawa-based author, lawyer, and journalist. He holds a master’s in journalism from Carleton University and a PhD in history from the University of Ottawa. In 2017, he was awarded a Juris Doctor degree and was called to the bar in 2018. He has won numerous awards for his journalism, including a National Magazine Award, and received the RBC Charles Taylor Prize in 2020 for his book Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson. His most recent book, Big Men Fear Me: The Fast Life and Quick Death of Canada’s Most Powerful Media Mogul, was nominated for several book awards.
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Introduction: The Forgotten Man Chapter 1: The Hustler Chapter 2: Newsies and Gold Chapter 3: George McCullagh’s Toronto Chapter 4: Owning a Premier Chapter 5: Meeting Mr. Wright Chapter 6: The Globe and Mail Chapter 7: Power and Politics Chapter 8: Sons of Mitches Chapter 9: The Coup Chapter 10: Radio Killed the Newspaper Star Chapter 11: Archworth Chapter 12: George McCullagh at War Chapter 13: Wars Within a War Chapter 14: Sending Zombies to War Chapter 15: The Great Toronto Newspaper War Chapter 16: Fighting Holy Joe’s Ghost Chapter 17: Drew Flames Out Chapter 18: Dying and Staying Very Dead Acknowledgements Notes
Introduction: The Forgotten Man Chapter 1: The Hustler Chapter 2: Newsies and Gold Chapter 3: George McCullagh’s Toronto Chapter 4: Owning a Premier Chapter 5: Meeting Mr. Wright Chapter 6: The Globe and Mail Chapter 7: Power and Politics Chapter 8: Sons of Mitches Chapter 9: The Coup Chapter 10: Radio Killed the Newspaper Star Chapter 11: Archworth Chapter 12: George McCullagh at War Chapter 13: Wars Within a War Chapter 14: Sending Zombies to War Chapter 15: The Great Toronto Newspaper War Chapter 16: Fighting Holy Joe’s Ghost Chapter 17: Drew Flames Out Chapter 18: Dying and Staying Very Dead Acknowledgements Notes
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