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""Donald Trump was chopped liver when compared with the Reichmann brothers," wrote a business reporter in Newsweek. At its peak, according to Business Week, the Reichmanns' family company Olympia & York, was "the largest real estate empire on earth." The extraordinary transformation of the Reichmann financial colossus into "the world's biggest private bankruptcy filing" (Time) is the subject of Peter Foster's dramatic saga of an empire's rise and fall." "Foster's story takes in the legendary Reichmann family history: their flight across Europe ahead of the Nazis, their residence in wartime Tangier, and their establishment of a modest tile business in a Toronto suburb. From that tiny base, Paul Reichmann and his brothers, Albert and Ralph, went on to a series of real estate developments each more spectacular than the last: the pathbreaking construction of Canada's tallest building, First Canadian Place; the "deal of the century" purchase of eight Manhattan skyscrapers in 1977; and the development of New York's architecturally acclaimed World Financial Center." "At the center of these spectacular developments was Paul Reichmann. He was devout, hardworking, and modest. His word was hi