ali on Instagram: "Follow me. Share this video. Read the full investigation on Substack. If you can, become a paid subscriber — that’s what keeps this work going. Join the Discord for discussion. Robert Maxwell bought Macmillan in 1988 for $2.5 billion. It was the first hostile takeover of a U.S. publisher — and it was an education publisher. He sold off the legal and reference units, flipped them for cash, and doubled down on schoolbooks. In 1989 he set up a joint venture with McGraw-Hill, merg