Trudeau's Tango : Alberta Meets Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-1972 / Darryl Raymaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raymaker, Darryl, 1939- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott.

Alberta Social Credit Party--History.

Alberta Social Credit Party.

Alberta--Politics and government--1935-1971.

Alberta.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 359 pages ): illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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. Foreword by Lloyd Axworthy.

Contents:

Here comes Mr. Trudeau

Oil and other minefields

The arranged marriage

Crisis

The second coming

The dawning of the Lougheed era

Stumbling toward the brink.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-77212-321-8

OCLC:

973043855