Pierre: Colleagues and Friends Talk About the Trudeau They Knew - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771081650 ISBN 13: 9780771081651

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Canadian journalist Southam, a personal friend of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000), has gathered some 150 anecdotes in which Trudeau's colleagues, friends, family, and others encountered during his career reminisce about their experiences of him, frequently discussing the personal side of the man. Among the contributors are former American President Jimmy Carter, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, media mogul Conrad Black, actor Christopher Plummer, former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former Canadian Cabinet Member (and later Prime Minister in his own right) Jean ChrÉtien, and actress Margot Kidder. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

Review:

"[Southam's] observations on Trudeau . . . are intimate, arresting, funny and deeply affecting. They and so many others here reveal a humanity and vulnerability which only those closest to him could see behind the cerebral, ascetic, stoic public man."
-- Andrew Cohen, Globe and Mail

"Lavishly illustrated and easy to peruse, Pierre is grist for the mill for readers who revere Canada's most controversial, yet celebrated politician."
-- London Free Press

"Arrogant, shy, charming, rude, kind, thoughtless -- all the contradictory traits of Canada's best-known 20th century prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, show up in this collection of anecdotes by friends and colleagues. . . . Love him or hate him, Trudeau was a one-off, and Southam's book shows him in all his vaunted complexity."
-- Toronto Sun

About the Author:

Journalist Nancy Southam was a close friend of Pierre Trudeau's in Montreal.

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0771081650
• ISBN 13: 9780771081651
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 388
• Editor: Southam Nancy