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History Post-confederation (1867-)

Montreal Olympics

An Insider's View of Organizing a Self-financing Games

by (author) Paul Charles Howell

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2008
Category
Post-Confederation (1867-)
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773582590
    Publish Date
    Jun 2008
    List Price
    $44.95

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Description

Paul Howell, a planning consultant and key player in the Montreal Olympic Organizing Committee, offers an insider's perspective on how a vast, complex, expensive, and highly politicized event was organized within the constraints imposed by limited resources, an unyielding deadline, and intense pressures from international and local special interest groups. He looks at both the struggles and what went uniquely right in Montreal, setting the record straight on operations, political involvement, and finance, including details of the well-publicized multi-billion dollar deficit that was misrepresented by the press and misunderstood by the public for decades.

About the author

Paul Charles Howell, president of HT/TH Howell Technologie, has planned large projects worldwide, including several Olympic Games, and lectured in the McGill Faculty of Management and the HÉC, Université de Montréal.

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