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UNINA9910783797103321 |
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Autore |
Kolber Leo |
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Leo [[electronic resource] ] : a life / / Leo Kolber with L. Ian MacDonald |
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Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-52995-5 |
9786613842404 |
0-7735-7157-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (322 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Directors of corporations - Canada |
Businessmen - Canada |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references: p. [285]-297. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Neither Rags, nor Riches -- “Mr Sam” -- Charles -- Edgar, Minda, and Phyllis -- Taking Toronto -- From Cemp to Cadillac Fairview -- Family -- Travels with Trudeau -- Prime Ministers, Premiers, and Pols -- The Bagman -- Hooray for Hollywood -- Authors and Artists -- Anti-Semitism and the Jewish Mosaic -- Israeli Friends and Friends of Israel -- Management and Leadership in Business -- The Senate Banking Committee -- Afterword -- Co-author’s Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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For thirty years Kolber was chairman of Cemp Investments, the Bronfman trust, and Cadillac Fairview Corporation, one of the largest real estate firms in North America. He charts his directorship of Dupont and other companies in which the Bronfmans held an important interest and reveals the inner workings of mega deals, including the Bronfman acquisition of MGM in the 1960s. The memoir also offers a sobering look at Edgar Bronfman Jr's disasterous decision to sell Seagram's 25 percent interest in DuPont in order to buy MCA-Universal Studios, a deal that Kolber strongly opposed and which signalled the dissolution of a great business empire. |
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