in Canada, and the following year in the U.S. It was a finalist for the 2009 National Business Book Award, the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Charles Taylor Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for biography. It was also a Washington Post book of the year. His second book, a biography of Herbert Hoover, was published by Random House/Knopf in 2017. In 2021, Knopf published The Sack of Detroit: General Motors and the End of American Enterprise, which is an account of the rise and subsequent decline of General Motors and the automotive industry. In this book, Whyte attributes the industry decline to what he believes was an excessively regulated business environment that developed following Ralph Nader's activism for the promotion of automobile safety. Sutherland House Books In 2018, Whyte announced he was forming Sutherland House Books, a non-fiction publishing house that began releasing books in 2019. Authors publishing works with the new firm include author and journalist Jon Kay, psychologist and academic Michael Ungar, author and historian Conrad Black,"urban fixer" Joe Berridge, TV critic Jaime Weinman, historian Neville Thompson, academic and writer Ira Wells, Dr. Elaine Chin, former Dalton McGuinty aide Alex Johnston, journalist Allen Abel, and former Miss World and diplomat Jennifer Hosten. Other Involvements In 2016-2017, Whyte was appointed to the Canadian government's expert advisory panel on cultural policy. A governor of the Donner Canadian Foundation for more than twenty years, Whyte succeeded Allan Gotlieb as chairman of the foundation in 2016. He was a director of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. He is a senior fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto, aformer adviser to the Cundill Prize Foundation, and a governor of the Aurea Foundation. He is a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, a life-time honorary alumnus of McGill University, and a former board member of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. References 1960 births Living people Canadian magazine editors Canadian male journalists Canadian newspaper editors Canadian newspaper executives Maclean's writers and editors National Post editors Writers from Winnipeg Saturday Night (magazine) editors