BRONFMAN MEMOIR MAKES CUT
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 (Harper-Collins Publishers Ltd.), co-written by the Montreal-born Bronfman and Howard Green, made the short list for the $30,000 prize on Tuesday. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age (Allen Lane Canada) by Daniel J. Levitin, and father-son co-authors Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott’s Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money are among other finalists. The award, sponsored by PwC Canada and BMO Financial Group, is handed out annually to the top Canadian business-related book of the previous year. The winner will be announced in Toronto on April 24.