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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00303215 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Jack McClelland, the man who set out in the fifties to transform McClelland and Stewart into the country's most exciting publishing house, is renowned as a risk-taker and an entrepreneur, indefatigable, irascible, funny and humane, who did some things well and some things badly - both in extreme measures. |
 | | James King interviewed Jack McClelland himself, his family, as well as numerous friends, authors and publishers, and was given unprecedented access to Jack McClelland's papers and the archives of McClelland and Stewart. |
 | | This is the candid, captivating biography of a legendary man - and a vivid window onto the lives and habits of this country's writers, as well as the story behind Canada's rise to prominence as a literary powerhouse. |
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