viii 323 pages, indexed, illustrated. The front end paper is missing, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy but very obviously second hand. ""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...." (Google)