Conrad Black Books in Order

Conrad Black has written 15 books, published between 1977 and 2025. The first book is Render Unto Caesar: The Life and Legacy of Maurice Duplessis (1977) and the newest is The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol II (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
15
Published
1977–2025
Pages on record
7,361 in 13 of 15 books
Reading time
123–184 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 7,361 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 15 titles with a page count on record.

Conrad Black writes biography and history, with 15 books catalogued from Render Unto Caesar: The Life and Legacy of Maurice Duplessis (1977) to The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol II (2025). United States presidents feature in Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom (2003) and Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full (2007). The Black series are History of Canada from the Vikings to the Present and Political and Strategic History of the World. Newspaper publishing, finance and Donald Trump also appear among the subjects. The median Black book runs to 522 pages.

How many Conrad Black books are there?

Conrad Black has 15 books, released between 1977 and 2025. They include 2 series and 10 titles listed outside any series.

Conrad Black Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 15 Conrad Black books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 11977522
  2. 2
    A life in progress1993 · 522 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993522
  3. 3
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom2003 · 1280 pages · confirmed 1/4
    20031280
  4. 420071148
  5. 5
    A Matter of Principle2011 · 581 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011581
  6. 62013746
  7. 72016592
  8. 8
    Rise to Greatness, Volume 1: ColonyHistory of Canada from the Vikings to the Present #12017 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017384
  9. 9
    Rise to Greatness, Volume 2: DominionHistory of Canada from the Vikings to the Present #22017 · 480 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017480
  10. 10
    Rise to Greatness, Volume 3: RealmHistory of Canada from the Vikings to the Present #32017 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017368
  11. 11
    Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other2018 · 228 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018228
  12. 12
    The Canadian Manifesto2019 · 166 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019166
  13. 132020344
  14. 14
    The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol. 1Political and Strategic History of the World #12023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023
  15. 15
    The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol IIPolitical and Strategic History of the World #22025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025

Conrad Black books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

History of Canada from the Vikings to the Present in order

3 books
  1. 1. Rise to Greatness, Volume 1: Colony
  2. 2. Rise to Greatness, Volume 2: Dominion
  3. 3. Rise to Greatness, Volume 3: Realm

Political and Strategic History of the World in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol. 1
  2. 2. The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol II

Standalone books

10 books

10 Conrad Black titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Conrad Black books in order?

You only need to read Conrad Black books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Conrad Black

Start with Render Unto Caesar: The Life and Legacy of Maurice Duplessis (1977), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Conrad Black book?

The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol II (2025) is the newest Conrad Black book released so far.

Is there a new Conrad Black book coming?

No next Conrad Black book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Conrad Black at a glance

Still publishing
Conrad Black published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Conrad Black books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
7,361 pages across the 13 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 522 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Conrad Black books, 8 of 15, were published in the 2010s.

What the Conrad Black books are about

12 of the 15 Conrad Black books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: biography is tagged on 6 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Biography 6 of 12 books
  • Presidents 5 of 12 books
  • History 3 of 12 books
  • Canada, history 2 of 12 books
  • Capitalists and financiers 2 of 12 books
  • E912 .b56 2018 2 of 12 books
  • Histoire 2 of 12 books
  • Newspaper publishing 2 of 12 books
  • Presidents--united states--biography 2 of 12 books
  • Publishers and publishing 2 of 12 books
  • Trump, donald, 1946- 2 of 12 books