Conrad Black

Conrad Moffat Black otherwise simply known as Conrad Black is a Canadian-born author and businessman that an entrepreneur that built one of the biggest newspapers in the world during the 1990s. Hollinger International the conglomerate that he founded would come to own venerable papers around the world that included “The Jerusalem Post,” the “Chicago Sun-Times,” and “The Daily Telegraph.” Black would be convicted of obstruction of justice and mail fraud in 2007 and spend several years in jail before he was pardoned by President Trump in 2019. As for his early childhood, Moffat spent his early years growing up in his native Toronto and then went to Ottawa to study political science and history at Carleton University, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1965. In 1970, he went to Quebec City’s Laval University for his law degree and then earned his master’s degree in history in 1973 from Montreal’s McGill University. His master’s thesis was on Maurice Duplessis the former premier of Quebec that would become a definitive work when it was published in 1977.