Bronfman memoir on book award list

A memoir by business magnate and philanthropist Charles Bronfman and a guide to spotting “fake news” online are among the finalists for this year’s National Business Book Award.

Distilled: A Memoir of Family, Seagram, Baseball, and Philanthropy, cowritten by the Montreal-born Bronfman and Howard Green, made the short list for the $30,000 prize, given to the most outstanding Canadian business-related book of the previous year.

Also on the list is A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age by neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin.

The other finalists are father-son co-authors Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott for Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business and the World, and Annette Verschuren with Eleanor Beaton for Bet on Me: Leading and Succeeding in Business and in Life.

The winner will be announced in Toronto on April 24.