Kenneth Whyte

Kenneth Whyte is the author of Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times, the definitive biography of America's 31st president (Knopf, 2017). He is also the author of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst, which was a Washington Post and Toronto Globe & Mail book of the year and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography and three other awards. Mr. Whyte is currently at work on his third book, which he is determined to finish in two years while serving as chairman of the Donner Canadian Foundation, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University, and a Senior Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute. He is an award-winning journalist, editor, and publisher of leading Canadian newspapers and magazines. He was President of Rogers Publishing (Canada's largest magazine publishing company), President of Next Issue Canada (now Texture), and Senior Vice President of Public Policy at Rogers Communications. He has vowed never to return to the telecom industry. Mr. Whyte has been a senior fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto and a visiting scholar at McGill University. He is an Honorary Lifetime Alumnus of McGill, a distinction of which the three-time university drop-out is inordinately proud.