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While much has been written about his father, Sam, a titan of industry, there is no public record of Charles Bronfman's thoughts on his life, family, business and accomplishments in his own right.

Blood Counts does just that, telling of key events in the life of one of Canada's greatest businessmen. Born in 1931 to the fabulously wealthy Bronfmans, who made their fortune in the liquor business, Charles grew up in a twenty-room home with eight staff. By the 1940s, his father, Sam, who had never forgotten going to school in torn clothes, was said to be worth $100 million, and by 1966, $400 million. The family's wealth turned into several billions by the 1990s culminating in the thirty-four-billion-dollar sale of Seagram's to France's Vivendi, which turned into financial disaster. In Blood Counts, Charles recalls his relationship with his parents and his brother, Edgar, to working in the family business, bringing major league baseball to Canada (the Montreal Expos),...