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Bronfman Dynasty
Peter Charles Newman
其他書名
The Rothschilds of the New World
出版McClelland and Stewart, 1978
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / BusinessBusiness & Economics / InfrastructureBusiness & Economics / Industries / Food Industry
ISBN07710675859780771067587
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lzk0AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Only one book-only one family - could possibly succeed The Canadian Establishment... and three years after the publication of that sensational and controversial volume, Peter C. Newman returns with Bronfman Dynasty, the intimate story of the greatest, most powerful empire of them all. Even though its various branches control assets worth an estimated 7 billion, the Bronfman clan is constantly in flux and flight - a feuding clutch of hot head dreamers with wounded eyes and hyper egos. We meet Sam Bronfman, who, along with his brothers, laid the Seagram empire's financial foundations by supplying booze to the bootleggers who crossed the Canadian U.S. border during some of the Prohibition era's most violent encounters. Later he sought respectability by attempting to buy a seat in the Canadian senate. Today's generation is less rambunctious but no less interesting. There's Charles, the current power behind the throne, who owns a baseball team and lives in a 2-million house that has a swimming pool with a retracting roof; Edgar, the New York jet-setter, who owns Montreal's huge Place Ville Marie and much of downtown Calgary; Mitch, who lives in a restored factory on Montreal's waterfront; and Minda, the baroness, who continues to set sophisticated standards for Parisian society. Here is the Canadian book that cried out to be written: the compelling saga of Canada's wealthiest, most powerful, and secretive dynasty" - Publisher.