The Aspirant Nation: A Conversation with Conrad Black

Conrad Black has been a member of the British House of Lords since 2001. He is the author of critically acclaimed biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon. Lord Black is the former head of the world’s third-largest newspaper empire, which published The Daily Telegraph and the Chicago Sun Times, among many others. He is a columnist at Canada's National Post, a publication which he founded, as well as a columnist at the National Review Online. His latest work is “Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership.”