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Beaverbrook

其他書名	A Study in Power and Frustration
出版	Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1956
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Kk0wAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"THE life of William Maxwell Aitken, first Baron Beaverbrook, is one of the most fabulous success stories of our time. Far more than forty years he has been a forminadble figure in British politics; now, at seventy-six, he is almost the last survivor of the great first generation of newspaper millionaires. Yet he was born a son of the Manse in a small Canadian town. With a vigour and candour worthy of his subject, Tom Driberg tells the story of Beaverbrook's flamvoyant achievements in finance, politics, and Fleet Street—but reveals his life, too, as one of ultimate disappointment and frustration. On his twenty-first birthday Max Aitken decided to become a millionaire. he quickly fulfilled this ambition and soon made up his mind to storm the citadels of political power in London. Within a few months of entering politics, this "little Canadian adventurer" was largely responsible for the overthrow of Balfour and the election as Conservative leader of his friend and fellow-Canadian Bonar Law. Then, at the height of the First World War he was a central figure in an even more spectacular coup, the replacement of Asquith by Lloyd George—an historic episode which Tom Driberg interprets anew, analysing it more thoroughly than any previous writer. In the twenties and thirties Beaverbrook became Baldwin's most aggressive challenger for the leadership of the Conservative Party; in the Abdication crisis he was one of the King's intimate advisers; in the Battle of Britain he was a dramatically successful Minister of Aircraft Production; and for many years he has enjoyed a close, if chequered friendship with Winston Churchill. Perhaps only an apparently trivial slip—the acceptance of a peerage early in his political career—has debarred Beaverbrook from the highest political office of all. Today he is best known to the public as a press lord: Mr. Driberg describes with inside knowledge the spectacular development of the Express newspapers and their proprietor's rigorous and individual methods of control, which have helped to raise the circulation of the Daily Express from 230,000 to more than four million."-Publisher.