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| Genre/Form: | Livre électronique (Descripteur de forme) Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme) |
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| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Clarkson |
| OCLC Number: | 757509454 |
| Notes: | Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 6 fév. 2009). |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Contents: | Preface: The Joy of WinningAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Party Systems and Liberal LeadersPierre Trudeau: Victory, Fall, and Recovery1974 The Liberal Party and Pierre Trudeau: The Jockey and the Horse1979 The Government's Defeat, the Party's Decline, and the Leader's (Temporary) Fall1980 Hiding the Charisma: Low-Bridging the SaviourJohn Turner: From Disappointment to Despair1984 The Dauphin and the Doomed: John Turner's Debacle1988 Election or Referendum? Disoriented in DefeatJean Chretien: Power without Purpose1993 Yesterday's Man and His Blue Grits: Backwards into Jean Chretien's Future1997 Securing Their Future Together2000 The Liberal Threepeat: The Multi-System Party in the Multi-Party SystemPaul Martin: Saved By the Far Right2004 Disaster and Recovery: Paul Martin As Political LazarusConclusionThe Liberal Party As Hegemon: Straddling Canadian History AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex |
| Responsibility: | Stephen Clarkson. |
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It is a popular political history, rich in detail, sparse in language, packed with backroom anecdotes, well-documented information, and the incisive political analysis that only an academic of Mr. Clarkson's stature can bring to a controversial, political hot-seller. -- Richard Cleroux * The Hill Times * University of Toronto political scientist Stephen Clarkson's is an academic work of the best kind. He covers a mountain of analytic literature on the subject and does not talk down to his readership. Yet he yet writes in a comprehensible and coherent style. His is a work intended for the educated layman, as well as the political scientist. It will be useful to journalists, teachers, lawyers and anyone interested in an intelligent treatment of our national politics. -- Allen Mills, professor of politics, University of Winnipeg * Winnipeg Free Press * Tough reading aside, The Big Red Machine is nonetheless alive with clear, bright thinking. Clarkson "gets" electoral politics. He avoids the journalistic trap of generalizing the popular will, and has a good feel for the ordering of the electorate into coalitions. Liberal campaign planners should read this book, especially the chapters about the Trudeau campaigns, which challenge the memory of a charismatic juggernaut with an evidence-based portrait of spotty organization, weak strategy and frequently indifferent performance. -- John Duffy * The Globe and Mail * Clarkson is particularly well targeted on the Liberal capacity to engage with ruthless focus and ballistic intensity when elections start to slip away ... As one enjoys this book's analysis and intellectual framework, it seems particularly worthwhile to ask whether the story it documents of mechanics over ideas is, really, in some way, a story of Canada itself. -- Hugh Segal * Literary Review of Canada * Read more...
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