The handover: how bigwigs and bureaucrats transferred Canada's best publisher and the best part of our literary heritage to a foreign multinational
Elaine Dewar
- Resource Type:
- E-Book
- Edition:
- First edition
- Publication:
- Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2017]
- Copyright:
- ©2017
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- Summary:
- "In her controversial new book, Elaine Dewar, named among 'Canada's best muckrakers,' reveals how our premiere national publisher, McClelland and Stewart, was eventually sold to Random House, a division of German media giant Bertelsmann, for a dollar. Drawing on interviews done with those who engineered the deal, and on documents never before revealed, Dewar tells the story of how a savvy businessman, an accountant, a University President, and three major law firms 'danced through the raindrops' to evade a thirty-year-old public policy created to defend Canadian national sovereignty. Part investigation, part memoir by a journalist whose career was shaped by the Investment Canada Act-the federal rules that protect Canada's $40 billion cultural industry-Dewar explores both how the Act was enacted and how it was taken down, piece by piece, deal by deal."-- [Provided by publisher]
- Author/Creator:
- Dewar, Elaine , author
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Other Related Resources:
- Other format: Hand-over [by Dewar, E.] (CaOONL Number 20169079473)
- Subjects:
- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-374) and index.
Description based on print version record. - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Call Numbers:
- Z483.M33 D48 2017eb
- ISBNs:
- 9781771961127 (electronic bk.)
1771961120 (electronic bk.)
9781771961110 [Invalid]
1771961112 [Invalid] - OCLC Numbers:
- 1018253251
- Other Control Numbers:
- EBC5178381 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp15079174