Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award • Finalist for the 2023 Ottawa Book Award in English Nonfiction • Longlisted for the 2023 National Business Book Award
The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America’s most influential media moguls.
When George Mc Cullagh bought The Globe and The Mail and Empire and merged them into the Globe and Mail, the charismatic 31-year-old high school dropout had already made millions on the stock market. It was just the beginning of the meteoric rise of a man widely expected to one day be prime minister of Canada. But the charismatic Mc Cullagh had a dark side. Dogged by the bipolar disorder that destroyed his political ambitions and eventually killed him, he was all but written out of history. It was a loss so significant that journalist Robert Fulford has called Mc Cullagh’s biography ‘one of the great unwritten books in Canadian history’—until now.
In Big Men Fear Me, award-winning historian Mark Bourrie tells the remarkable story of Mc Cullagh’s inspirational rise and devastating fall, and with it sheds new light on the resurgence of populist politics, challenges to collective action, and attacks on the free press that characterize our own tumultuous era.
Table des matières
Introduction: The Forgotten Man
Chapter 1: The Hustler
Chapter 2: Newsies and Gold
Chapter 3: George Mc Cullagh’s Toronto
Chapter 4: Owning a Premier
Chapter 5: Meeting Mr. Wright
Chapter 6: The Globe and Mail
Chapter 7: Power and Politics
Chapter 8: Sons of Mitches
Chapter 9: The Coup
Chapter 10: Radio Killed the Newspaper Star
Chapter 11: Archworth
Chapter 12: George Mc Cullagh at War
Chapter 13: Wars Within a War
Chapter 14: Sending Zombies to War
Chapter 15: The Great Toronto Newspaper War
Chapter 16: Fighting Holy Joe’s Ghost
Chapter 17: Drew Flames Out
Chapter 18: Dying and Staying Very Dead
Acknowledgements
Notes
A propos de l’auteur
Mark Bourrie is an Ottawa-based author, lawyer, and journalist. He holds a master’s in journalism from Carleton University and a Ph D in history from the University of Ottawa. In 2017, he was awarded a Juris Doctor degree and was called to the bar in 2018. He has won numerous awards for his journalism, including a National Magazine Award, and received the RBC Charles Taylor Prize in 2020 for his book Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson. His most recent book, Big Men Fear Me: The Fast Life and Quick Death of Canada’s Most Powerful Media Mogul, was nominated for several book awards.
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