I have written elsewhere that Conrad Black can be an interesting writer and a formidable historian, and that it is much better to have him writing histories than running businesses or getting involved in public administration.
I have great admiration for Vladimir Bukovsky and am praising him in my current book, a history of Canada, for his criticism of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s admiring comments about the Soviet Siberian city of Norilsk, largely constructed by Gulag victims. [emphasis added]
Well, brace yourselves, Canadianists. Apparently he will follow his recent "strategic history" of the United States with a history of Canada.
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