Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from MacDonald to ChrétienUpdated with an insightful and controversial assessment of Jean Chrétien Since first published in 1994, Right Honourable Men has remained the definitive source for Canadians wanting to know more about the quality of our leaders and the personalities behind the policies. Now, in this timely new edition, Bliss evaluates Jean Chrétien's record and asserts that he was actually a conservative prime minister -- as conservative as Mulroney himself. And Chrétien's legacy? A decade of squandered opportunities, national decline, and dashed hopes of real reform. From the visionary Macdonald, the reckless Laurier, and the misunderstood King, to the flamboyant Trudeau, the vainglorious Mulroney and the wily Chrétien, Right Honourable Men defines the essence of political leadership in Canada, sets the standard for rating prime ministers, and provides a fascinating roadmap for our past -- and our future. |
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... affairs were given the least priority . At the end of long , troubled days , he often turned to bottled relief . Upper and Lower Canada were united into a single province , Canada , in 1841 , and later in that decade Reformers succeeded ...
... affairs to the Grit party for the next ten years,” Macdonald explained to a follower. He climbed aboard the bandwagon, and soon led the band. Experienced and smart, well read and better versed in constitutional law than most of his ...
... affairs to a government centred a thousand miles away in the interior of the continent. And the Reformers of Upper Canada also wanted to run their affairs without too many French and Catholic legislators standing in their way. To ...
... affairs . Why did Brown sing for a time from Macdonald's centralist hymn book ? Partly because of his own British conservatism , partly because he shared the strong sense of nationalism of the Confederation years . Brown , Macdonald ...
... affairs during his marriages . He was a loving husband and father ( one son from his first marriage , a handicapped daughter from his second ) and , particularly in the later years , he cut back substantially on his drinking . It would ...
Contents
1840 | |
1879 | |
BORDEN Among the Beasts of Ephesus | 1910 |
MACDONALD The Crisis of the SelfMade Leader | |
KING Dividing Us Least | |
KING Welfare Liberalism | |
DIEFENBAKER Trying Tory Populism | |
PEARSON Middle Innings | |
TRUDEAU The Politics of Confrontation | |
MULRONEY Throwback | |
CHRÉTIEN Were Number Eight | |
Acknowledgements | |
Copyright | |
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Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to ... Michael Bliss No preview available - 1995 |