The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (606 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1771961112 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Praise for Elaine Dewar"Dewar is a keen observer of place and personality."—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It is the story not just of the demise of the country’s best independent publisher, it is about the threats, internal and otherwise, facing Canadian culture. Its dynamic leader Jack McClelland worked with successive provincial and federal governments to help draft policies in the 1960s and 70s which ensured that Canadian stories would, for the first time in the nation’s history, be told and published by Canadians. When 75% of M&S was gifted amidst great fanfare to the University of Toronto on Canada Day 2000“To achieve the survival of one great Canadian institution,” M&S owner Avie Bennett declared at the time, “I have given it into the care of another great Canadian institution”one could’ve assumed that it would remain in Canadian hands and under Canadian control in perpetuity.But one would have been wrong.In her controversial new book, Elaine Dewar reveals for the first time how M&S was sold salami-style to Random House, a division of German media giant Bertelsmann; how smart businessmen and even smarter lawyers danced through the raindrops of the law
Her first book, Cloak of Green, delved into the dark side of environmental politics and became an underground classic. Dewar has been called one of Canada’s best muckrakers and Canada’s Rachel Carson.” She aspires to be a happy warrior for the public good.. Her journalism has been honored by nine National Magazine awards, including the prestigious President’s Medal, and the White Award. The Se