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"In her controversial new book, Elaine Dewar, named among 'Canada's best muckrakers,' reveals how our premiere national publisher, McClelland and Stewart, was eventually sold to Random House, a division of German media giant Bertelsmann, for a dollar. Drawing on interviews done with those who engineered the deal, and on documents never before revealed, Dewar tells the story of how a savvy businessman, an accountant, a University President, and three major law firms 'danced through the raindrops' to evade a thirty-year-old public policy created to defend Canadian national sovereignty. Part investigation, part memoir by a journalist whose career was shaped by the Investment Canada Act-the federal rules that protect Canada's $40 billion cultural industry-Dewar explores both how the Act was enacted and how it was taken down, piece by piece, deal by deal."--

subjects: Investments, foreign, canada,  Publishers and publishing, canada,  Consolidation and merger of corporations, canada,  Book industries and trade,  Consolidation and merger of corporations, law and legislation,  Press law,  Publishers and publishing,  Consolidation and merger of corporations,  Law and legislation,  Foreign Investments,  McClelland and Stewart Limited,  Canada