
"I am the victim of the Furies. On the rock-bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave smashing viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me." "When Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, wrote these words to Winston Churchill at the height of World War II he was sixty-two, the second most powerful man in the kingdom and (at least in his own eyes) a potential prime minister himself. As Fleet Street's most dynamic and inventive press baron, as cabinet minister, as compulsive behind-the-scenes manipulator, he had already been playing a central role in British public life for three decades, and would continue to do so until his death in 1964. Describing himself as a force of nature was pure Beaverbrook; but no one who knew him would be likely to deny the accuracy of the description." "In this ground-breaking biography, the first to deal objectively with its subject, Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie succeed brilliantly in bringing the man to life. Here is young Max, a son of the manse, rebelliously growing up in a remote corner of the Canadian Maritimes, going on to make a fortune in business by methods clearly described for the first time. We see him in London, scarcely thirty, deploying his money and his demonic energy not only to invade the upper reaches of British society but also to get a seat in Parliament and achieve a peerage, all in only six years ... promoting the coup that overthrew Asquith as Prime Minister in the middle of World War I ... taking over the Daily Express and building the bigge…
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