Leo : a life / Leo Kolber with L. Ian MacDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kolber, Leo.

Contributor:

MacDonald, L. Ian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kolber, Leo.

Bronfman family.

Canada. Parliament. Senate--Biography.

Canada.

Directors of corporations--Canada--Biography.

Directors of corporations.

Businessmen--Canada--Biography.

Businessmen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [285]-297.

ISBN:

1-283-52995-5

9786613842404

0-7735-7157-4

OCLC:

180773056