false 3255733 1 Eminently readable, engaging, and insightful, the first volume in the essential trilogy of the same name, <I>The Canadian Establishment</I> 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. <I>--William Newbigging</I> 3290942 1981 Acquisitors: Volume 2 of the Canadian Establishment 0 0 1 0 0 0 false false Wed Apr 30 08:38:50 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 08:38:53 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3255733