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  • J.L. Ilsley: A Political Biography

    Barry Cahill

    This biography of J. L. Ilsley offers a new vantage point on Mackenzie King’s Liberal government during the Second World War and a portrait of a fiscal conservative who opened the floodgates of spending while clamping down on profiteering and the rich.

    $27.95, Paperback

  • A Very Double Life

    C. P. Stacey
    Stacey's book was the first to examine in detail the convoluted, often bizarre private life of one of Canada's most influential Prime Ministers.
    $24.95, Paperback

  • Remembering Richard

    Nancy Southam
    Richard Hatfield was a fascinating and flamboyant politician, equally at home on the dance floor of a New York club or a Tehran market as on the floor of the New Brunswick legislature.
    $12.99, Hardcover
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    Preston Manning and the Reform Party

    Murray Dobbin
    The rise and persistence of the Reform Party and its successor the Canadian Alliance has indelibly altered the traditional structures of party politics in Canada.
    $9.95, Paperback
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    John Buchanan : the art of political survival

    Peter Kavanagh
    $16.95, Paperback

  • Richard Hatfield

    Richard Starr
    When New Brunswick Liberals crushed Richard Hatfield's Conservative government in the1987 election, winning every seat in the legislature, it marked the end of a high-flying political career comprehending everything from high-performance sports cars to ignominious drug busts.
    $9.95, Paperback

  • Close to Charisma

    Patrick Gossage
    Patrick Gossage went to work for Pierre Trudeau as a press secretary in 1976. "You were so green," Trudeau reminisced years later. That very innocence gives a remarkable freshness to these first-hand observations of the Trudeau years.
    $9.95, Paperback

  • Her Excellency Jeanne SauvĂ©

    Shirley Woods
    A small circle of French Canadians who were journalists, intellectuals and politicans had enormous influence on Canadian life in the 60s and 70s. There was one woman among them - and this book tells her story.
    $9.95, Paperback

  • Richard Hatfield

    Richard Starr
    When New Brunswick Liberals crushed Richard Hatfield's Conservative government in the1987 election, winning every seat in the legislature, it marked the end of a high-flying political career comprehending everything from high-performance sports cars to ignominious drug busts.
    $14.95, Paperback

  • Wife of...

    Sondra Gotlieb
    An irreverent, often hilarious portrait of Washington's powerful and important people by the wife of Canada's former ambassador to the United States.
    $9.95, Paperback

  • Stanley Knowles

    Susan Mann Trofimenkoff
    A stalwart in the Canadian Parliament for more than four decades, Stanley Knowles worked tirelessly on behalf of the poor, the elderly and those in need.
    $9.95, Paperback

  • Radical Tories

    Charles Taylor
    Red Toryism is a peculiarly Canadian phonomenon: a heritage of radical populism that stands at the very foundation of our national life.
    $9.95, Paperback
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    The Company Store

    John Mellor
    In the first decades of the 20th century, Cape Breton miners faced soldiers, machine guns, prison sentences, starvation, homelessness.
    $9.95, Paperback

  • Tommy Douglas

    Doris French Shackleton
    A warm, lively, often witty, account of the life of one of Canada's most loved - and most successful - political leaders.
    $9.95, Paperback

  • Walter Gordon

    Walter Gordon
    The biography of a gentle, passionate patriot who became an Ottawa insider and fought for his vision of an independent Canada.
    $9.95, Paperback
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