Canadian Establishment Volume 2 [Mass Market Paperback]

Peter C. Newman (Author)

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Mass Market Paperback: 632 pages
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (April 1 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 077106778X
ISBN-13: 978-0771067785
Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.7 x 4.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 249 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #682,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Eminently readable, engaging, and insightful, the first volume in the essential trilogy of the same name, The Canadian Establishment is required reading for anyone with an interest in Canadian business. Although somewhat dated in its characters and situations, the book remains relevant because it examines the foundational elements of Canadian business and renders comprehensible the difficulties which confront business today. At one point Newman compares the CEO to the Chinese pelican whose throat is banded to prevent him from swallowing the fish he catches for his masters. Every so often, he's allowed to swallow a fish. The analogy is apt. Newman writes, "Too many businessmen had distorted their own system of values by subscribing to the notion that they could be ethical without being moral, that the main operative restraint was to show maximum profits without going to jail." Besides, the detailed descriptions of lavish homes, offices, business jets, and personal peccadilloes make reading it very entertaining. --William Newbigging --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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In the 1970s, a thousand men formed Canada's unelected government—invisible, inbred, secretive, puritanical and tough-minded business-men dedicated to preserving the status quo—their status quo. In this fascinating and factual account, we see who had the power, how they achieved it, how they held onto it and how they used and abused it.

In this groundbreaking first volume of his Canadian Establishment series, Peter C. Newman traces the elaborate personal interconnections among members of the power elite, illustrates how authority moves, and exposes the methods used for its self- perpetuation. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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