{"product_id":"9780771046384","title":"Magna Cum Laude: How Frank Stronach Became Canada's Best-Paid Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first biography of one of Canada’s most elusive and controversial billionaires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a solid, thorough business book about Frank Stronach, Canada’s most famous rags-to-riches story. The outline is well known: a young Austrian immigrant arrives in Canada in 1955 with fifty dollars in his pocket. He takes menial jobs like washing dishes until he can start a tiny machine shop in Toronto in 1957. The Auto Pact opens up the car-parts business. The company grows and grows, spawning many small union-free factories, until from its Aurora base it employs more than seventy thousand people, and Frank as chairman and owner can pay himself over $54 million in salary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet Wayne Lilley’s book will be the very first about this eccentric, larger than life figure. As a result of dogged research, he has built up a detailed, step-by-step picture of how Magna grew — and recovered from the brink of disaster in 1990, to its present gigantic size. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s an amazing story of business success, stranger than fiction, that along the way takes us into the world of car-making, of horse racing (Stronach owns more than 1,000 thoroughbreds and 11 tracks in North America), and of politics (where Frank and his daughter Belinda have both played a role). Yet all the while a shareholders’ 2006 lawsuit against Stronach’s control of the company is ticking like a time bomb . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025917001968,"sku":"9780771046384","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780771046384_p0.jpg?v=1763659933","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780771046384","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}