“When a great writer is falsely imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit and decides to write a tell all non defensive account, the result is likely to be riveting. Conrad Black’s memoir does not disappoint. With his characteristic verve, turns of phrase and brilliant insights, Black puts his persecutors on trial. I am confident he will win the verdict of history.”
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ
“Conrad Black’s A Matter of Principle is a fascinating, erudite, and defiant prison memoir – must-read for lawyers, politicos, and gossips alike!”
MARGARET ATWOOD, on Twitter
“Conrad Black is back – and it’s payback time, Jack!”
TOM WOLFE
“Compellingly readable, A Matter of Principle is partly a witty high-society memoir, partly a business book, partly a searingly-argued case for Black’s defence, partly a moving love-story, and partly a polemic explaining the death of his once profound admiration for the USA. What it is emphatically not is an apologia, but instead more a case for the prosecution of what he calls America’s ‘prosecutocracy.’”
ANDREW ROBERTS
“Written with high indignation but without so much as a drop of self-pity, and tempered by his characteristic panache, eloquence, and wit, A Matter of Principle is Conrad Black’s account of how and why he was toppled from his position as one of the great newspaper publishers of the day and then sent to prison on charges of which he was innocent. It is a fascinating, illuminating, and in some ways a horrifying story that should and hopefully will repair the damage that has so unjustly been done to his reputation.”
NORMAN PODHORETZ
“Conrad Black, who writes vigorous, muscular prose, relishes the fact that writing can be a way of fighting. In his spirited memoir, this pugnacious man of many accomplishments tells a fascinating story of, among other things, the prosecution of him that got the disapproving attention of the U.S. Supreme Court.”
GEORGE F. WILL
“You hold in your hands a vivid account of what has become a crucial threat to the American way of life: Class warriors of the Left enlisting all-powerful prosecutors to demonize and destroy successful entrepreneurs and executives. The injustices reach well beyond the targeted executives and result in widespread collateral financial damage to likewise innocent investors and shareholders, who also pay a steep price. This is an important, captivating account, lived and recounted by one of the sharpest minds of our time: Conrad Black.”
RUSH LIMBAUGH