Friends and Enemies
A Memoir
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Barbara Amiel's much-talked-about life has been a subject of endless fascination for the media, many unauthorized biographies, as well as screen depictions. An instinctive feminist and now a foe of feminism's political correctness, she covers a formidable array of experiences--political, sexual, marital, and material--in these memoirs.
Born in London during World War II's Blitz, the only consistent strains in her life were a fierce belief in her identity as a Jew, even as the Jewish community disowned her, and an unquestioned view that women were free to do anything in any arena they chose without the need to win society's approval. Which she very often did not.
Her rise to the senior rungs of journalism began in Canada after the emigration…
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October 13, 2020Barbara Amiel has been a columnist for The Times of London, The Daily Telegraph, Maclean's, Senior Political Columnist for The Sunday Times, Editor of The Toronto Sun (first woman to edit a major daily paper in Canada), VP-Editorial for Hollinger newspapers, and co-authored By Persons Unknown, which won the prestigious Mystery Writers of America Edgar award.
