Gordon Pitts: 2 books
The Last Canadian Knight
The Unintended Business Adventures of Sir Graham Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
From a small-town law office in Nova Scotia to the pressure-cooker boardrooms of London, England, where he was Margaret Thatcher's "privatization ace," lawyer and businessman Sir Graham Day has earned an international reputation as a tough-minded but charming negotiator.
After a rocky...
Fire in the Belly
How Purdy Crawford rescued Canada, and changed the way we do business
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Purdy Crawford’s name is synonymous with Canadian business and law. But even after education at Mount Allison and Harvard, Purdy arrived on Toronto’s Bay Street as an outsider, the son of a coal miner from tiny Five Islands, Nova Scotia. So how did young Purdy ascend so quickly and so far to become...