The Memoir of Barbara Amiel, Who Confounded the Gossips in a Story for Our Time By SETH LIPSKY, Special to the Sun | October 13, 2020 https://www.nysun.com/foreign/how-true-love-won-the-day-with-conrad-black/91296/ One of the things that made me look forward to reading Barbara Amiels new memoir is something she said shortly before her husband, Conrad Black, departed for prison. It was at a dinner for him at the Breakers in Palm Beach, where ten or so editors had gathered to buoy his spirits.