Peter C. Newman, who for more than a half-century unearthed revelations while chronicling power brokers on Parliament Hill and in Canadian boardrooms — earning praise for his writing style and occasionally the wrath of his subjects — has died. He was 94.
Alvy Newman, his wife, told The Canadian Press that the celebrated author died on Thursday morning in Belleville, Ont.
When Newman published his first book, The Flame of Power: The Story of Canada’s Greatest Businessmen, at 29, the jacket described the newcomer as “intrigued with the power wielded by that small golden group whose acquisitive itch has catapulted them beyond the prosaic strivings
