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Trudeau's Tango: Alberta Meets Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968–1972

By Darryl Raymaker

Book information

Publisher
The University of Alberta Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781636853772, 2022902896, 9781636851396
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4288602 bytes)
Pages
244\0
Time added
2022-12-22 16:20:40
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Biog

Description

A chronicle of Pierre Elliot Trudeau's first term as prime minister and the attempt to bridge one of Canada's classic political fault lines. Trudeau appeared to enjoy the encounter. He stood his ground while escaping projectiles, including a tomato... In this insightful and lively history, Liberal insider Darryl Raymaker recalls the attempt to broker "a marriage from hell" between the federal Liberal Party and Alberta's Social Credit government in the late 1960s. Raymaker uses his deep connections and backroom knowledge to trace the tangled political relationships that developed when charismatic statesman Pierre Trudeau confronted the forces of oil and agriculture in Canada's west. Part memoir, part chronicle, Trudeau's Tango provides a window into Canadian history, politics, economics and the zeitgeist of the late 1960s.

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