America for Sale : How the Foreign Pack Circled and Devoured Esmark

ISBN
9780313376788
$49.00
Author Bouchard, Craig T.
Format Trade Cloth
Details
  • Active Record
  • Individual Title
  • 1 vol.
  • 2009
  • 210
  • Yes
  • 32
  • HD9519.E86B68 2009
Exploring the issue of foreign ownership of corporate America, a leading economist and the president of the steel producer, Esmark, revisit the sale of that company to a Russian firm. * Previously unseen documents relating to the hostile reverse tender merger of Esmark, a historic first in unseating the board of directors of a publicly traded company in the United States * A chronology of the "America for Sale" phenomenon and of key events in the American steel industry, from the 1970s to 2009 * Approximately 25 tables and one dozen graphs that make it easy for readers to interpret data related to the Esmark sale and the overall foreign stake in American companies * Text boxes that focus on human interest stories and the amazing quirks attached to the sale of Esmark--for example, one of the Russian bidders also was interested in acquiring the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team and preventing its star Russian hockey player from leaping from a team in the remote Ural mountains to the NHL; that star subsequently led the NHL in scoring in the 2009 NHL season