Quote:
Though we keep calling him a businessman, it is evident he really is a precocious self-dramatist, a one-man factory for the great story of himself who set out from boyhood on to command the spotlight and register his outsized presence in the company of those whom the world chooses to call great, to be at one with its princes and powers as lord, tycoon, author, press baron, and eminence.
He has immense theatrical gifts, a personality that combines flair, menace, stentorian insistence with a busy and aggressive mind afloat on a gorgeous stream of its own self-appreciation. He is a man whose powers of rhetoric are far more abundant than the many packs of lawyers he has remorselessly sent out to harass witless journalists, knavish biographers, assorted poltroons, jackals, and guttersnipes, that great cluster of anybody whom he considered a pest, a nuisance, or a threat.
He has immense theatrical gifts, a personality that combines flair, menace, stentorian insistence with a busy and aggressive mind afloat on a gorgeous stream of its own self-appreciation. He is a man whose powers of rhetoric are far more abundant than the many packs of lawyers he has remorselessly sent out to harass witless journalists, knavish biographers, assorted poltroons, jackals, and guttersnipes, that great cluster of anybody whom he considered a pest, a nuisance, or a threat.
Then I realized it was about Conrad Black
http://www.cbc.ca/national/rex/2007/03/lord_black_has_found_a_bigger.html
What a tease!