Poitras digs into Lord Beaverbrook’s sensational, bitter ‘shattered legacy’
Born William Maxwell Aitken in New Brunswick, the Fleet Street press baron helped oust a British prime minister, built the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, but the paintings are today at the centre of a bitter battle between the gallery and the cha
In its review of CBC radio New Brunswick provincial affairs reporter Jacques Poitras' latest book, Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy, Fortune magazine wrote, "It is a sign of poor relations between donor and charity when the donor's heir takes a hacksaw to the charity's filing cabinet...
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