@article{318441,
      recid = {318441},
      author = {Faith, Nicholas,},
      title = {The Bronfmans : the rise and fall of the house of Seagram  /},
      publisher = {St. Martin's Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {viii, 338 p., [8] p. of plates :},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {The 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/318441},
}