The Thomson Empire
1984
Biography
by
Susan Goldenberg
Biography about Canada's richest family and how they built a fortune in newspapers, media, and oil and gas. This book describes how Roy Thomson built the empire and his son Kenneth Thomson turned the empire into the financial data powerhouse later known as Thomson Reuters.
Jermaine's Notes
September 2024
Part of the trilogy on Roy Thomson. See "After I Was Sixty" and "Roy Thomson of Fleet Street." Read 1984 hardcover.
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Biography of Roy Thomson, a newspaper entrepreneur and the patriarch of Canada's richest family. Details his childhood, his failures, and how he built a billion-dollar cash-flowing media empire by acquiring newspapers in North America and the U.K.
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