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Letter
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Conrad Black's Flight of the Eagle, from Encounter, gives unprecedented view of historyLike an eagle, American colonists ascended from the gulley of British dependence to the position of sovereign world power in a period of merely two centuries. Seizing territory in Canada and representation in Britain; expelling the French, and even their British forefathers, American leaders George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson paved their nation's way to independence. With the first buds of public-relation techniques -- of communication, dramatization, and propaganda -- America flourished into a vision of freedom, enterprise, and unalienable human rights.
Black was the chairman of The Telegraph newspapers in Britain from 1987 to 2003, and founded the National Post in Canada, where he remains a columnist. He has been a member of the British House of Lords since 2001.
In Flight of the Eagle, he addresses the present times and America's future in the hopes that it will return to the dynamism of great leadership and pre-eminence in the world, which it richly earned and still shows signs of today.
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