Shades of Black: Conrad Black and the World's Fastest Growing Press Empire

by Richard Siklos

In 1985 Conrad Black was a 40-year-old financier with a passion for publishing and a string of corporate coups and controversies behind him in his native Canada. With military precision, Black set about acquiring newspapers and the influence that goes along with them, amassing in just three years interests in more than 300 titles. This book presents the inside story of Black's relentless quest to become the world's leading press baron.

466 pages, Hardcover

Published May 1, 1997

About the author

Richard Siklos is an accomplished journalist who lives outside New York City with his family.

Reviews

[Claris]

3.5

[Mike]

It reads like a grocery list. It's pedantic and dry; like its subject.
Tom Bower's "Conrad and Lady Black" is infinitely better. It crackles with energy, and schadenfreude.

[Mike Steinborn]

Interesting to read about a man that has since become a felon in the USA, convicted of fraud. This fact, however, does not diminish the value of reading about his life up to the point where he was still a rising star.