Magna Cum Laude: How Frank Stronach Became Canada's Best-Paid Man

by Wayne Lilley

Book Overview

The first biography of one of Canada's most elusive and controversial billionaires. This 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077105291X
• ISBN13: 9780771052910
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Douglas Gibson
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.