Biography & Autobiography Political
Leo
A Life
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2006
- Category
- Political, Management
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773526341
- Publish Date
- Oct 2003
- List Price
- $44.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773571570
- Publish Date
- Oct 2003
- List Price
- $28.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773526358
- Publish Date
- Feb 2006
- List Price
- $28.95
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Description
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.
About the authors
Leo Kolber was named to the Senate by Pierre Trudeau and served for twenty years. He lives in Montreal. L. Ian MacDonald is the Montreal-based author of From Bourassa to Bourassa: Wilderness to Restoration, the editor of Policy Options, and a frequent
Ian Macdonald was born and educated in Glasgow and worked for several years on Scottish newspapers before moving to Canada. He was a reporter in Ontario and Alberta before finding his way to the West Coast where he worked on the Victoria Colonist, the Vancouver Province and the Vancouver Sun. He was Ottawa correspondent for the Sun for five years before becoming press officer for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. He made an award-winning documentary film, and then turned seriously to the writing of history. Betty O'Keefe was born in Vancouver and wrote for the Province newspaper for several years. She then moved into the field of public relations as a consultant and later as supervisor of communications for a large Canadian corporation. In 1988 she opened her own communications company, but decided that her real interest was in writing history. Together, Betty O’Keefe and Ian Macdonald have co-authored a dozen books.
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