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The Handover - by Elaine Dewar (Hardcover)

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  • Until recently, McClelland and Stewart had been known as "The Canadian Publisher," the country's longest-lived and best independent press.
  • About the Author: Elaine Dewar (1948-2025)--author, journalist, television story editor--has been honoured by nine National Magazine awards, including the prestigious President's Medal, and the White Award.
  • 208 Pages
  • Business + Money Management, Corporate & Business History

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About the Book



How control of Canada's iconic publisher, McClelland and Stewart, was transferred over to a foreign-owned corporation.



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Until recently, McClelland and Stewart had been known as "The Canadian Publisher," the country's longest-lived and best independent press. 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. M&S introduced Canadians to themselves while championing the nation's literature, bringing to the world Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Mavis Gallant, Farley Mowat, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, and many others. 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 laws put into place to protect Canadian cultural institutions from foreign ownership while cultural bureaucrats looked the other way; and why we should care. 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. The Handover is more than just a CanLit How-Done-It: it is essential reading for anyone interested in the telling of Canadian stories.



About the Author



Elaine Dewar (1948-2025)--author, journalist, television story editor--has been honoured by nine National Magazine awards, including the prestigious President's Medal, and the White Award. Her first book, Cloak of Green, delved into the dark side of environmental politics and became an underground classic. Bones: Discovering the First Americans, an investigation of the science and politics regarding the peopling of the Americas, was a national bestseller and earned a special commendation from the Canadian Archaeological Association. The Second Tree: of Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality won Canada's premier literary nonfiction prize from the Writers' Trust. The Handover was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction. On The Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years broke front page news in the Globe and Mail with its investigation into the infiltration of Canada's only level four microbiology institution by leading Chinese military researchers who subsequently fled the country. Called "Canada's Rachel Carson," Dewar aspired to be a happy warrior for the public good.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.7 Inches (H) x 6.1 Inches (W) x 1.3 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.45 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 208
Genre: Business + Money Management
Sub-Genre: Corporate & Business History
Publisher: Biblioasis
Format: Hardcover
Author: Elaine Dewar
Language: English
Street Date: July 4, 2017
TCIN: 1008941954
UPC: 9781771961110
Item Number (DPCI): 247-41-2135
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.3 inches length x 6.1 inches width x 8.7 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 1.45 pounds
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