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001 2006040391
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050 00 $aHD9390.C22$bB718 2006
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100 1 $aFaith, Nicholas,$d1933-
245 14 $aThe Bronfmans :$bthe rise and fall of the house of Seagram /$cNicholas Faith.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c2006.
300 $aviii, 338 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [319]-320) and index.
520 $aThe Bronfman family story is an improbable saga of larger-than-life personalities and bitter rivalries. "Mr. Sam," the man who made drinking whiskey respectable in the United States, built Seagram into the first worldwide liquor empire in the 1950s and 1960s. After Sam's death in 1971, his oldest son Edgar masterminded a major coup when he translated a small investment in oil made by his father into a 25% stake in the mighty DuPont company. But in the 1990s, Edgar allowed his second son, Edgar Jr., to indulge his ambition to become a media tycoon. He reinvested the DuPont stake in Universal, the film and theme-park empire, then bought Polygram Records. But at the same time, he remained in charge of the liquor business, which started to fall apart. Then came the final disaster, when the increasingly divided family sold out to the empire builder of the French conglomerate Vivendi.--From publisher description.
600 30 $aBronfman family.
610 20 $aSeagram Company.
650 0 $aDistilling industries$zCanada.
650 0 $aBusinesspeople$zCanada$xBiography.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006040391-b.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006040391-s.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2006040391-d.html