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Banking On America
Banking On America examines how TD Bank expanded beyond Canada and established a substantial presence in the United States. Its subject is not simply institutional growth, but the combination of leadership, strategy, and corporate culture that shaped that expansion. The book considers the decisions and working practices behind TD’s development into a major North American banking force. Interviews, research, and insider perspectives give the narrative a business-history framework while keeping attention on the people and ideas that influenced the institution’s direction.
Howard Green’s contribution is to bring these elements together in a reported account rather than presenting banking as an abstract sequence of mergers or financial results. Through interviews and research, he investigates how leadership and organizational culture operate alongside formal strategy. The use of insider perspectives suggests an interest in experience as well as outcome: readers are invited to consider how a large financial institution is guided, adapted, and understood from within. Green therefore makes the story accessible to readers interested in management, institutions, and Canadian business history.
The book is significant as an account of a Canadian bank’s movement into the U.S. market and of the organizational choices involved in that process. It offers a focused way to think about cross-border business, the formation of institutional identity, and the relationship between culture and expansion. Its value lies less in celebrating growth than in examining the leadership and practices that made growth possible. For readers of banking and business history, it connects a particular corporate story with broader questions about how financial institutions change.
A collector might care about this work because it combines a clearly defined historical subject with the interpretive possibilities of narrative nonfiction. Its interest is literary in the way it organizes interviews, research, and perspectives into a story of institutional transformation; it is artistic in the shaping of people, decisions, and culture into a coherent account. The book can therefore hold a place in a collection concerned with Canadian history, business writing, or studies of banking as a human and organizational activity.
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Signed First Edition hardcover of Banking On America by Canadian business journalist and BNN television anchor Howard Green.
This copy has been signed by the author on the title page and retains the original publisher's "Signed by Author" sticker on the front dust jacket.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. in 2013, the copyright page states First Edition. The number line begins with "2", which may indicate a later printing. Accordingly, this copy is being offered as a First Edition, believed to be a Second Printing.
Banking On America tells the remarkable story of how TD Bank expanded beyond Canada and became one of North America's most successful financial institutions. Through interviews, research, and insider perspectives, Howard Green examines the leadership, strategy, and culture that transformed TD into a major force in the U.S. banking market.
An excellent addition for collectors of Canadian business history, banking, investing, and signed nonfiction.
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- Hardcover with original dust jacket• Signed by Howard Green• Stated First Edition• Believed to be a Second Printing• Original "Signed by Author" sticker present• Clean interior pages• Binding firm and sound• Light shelf wear from normal handling and storage• No missing pages noted
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