Volume 2: The Heroic Delusion
Winner of the John W. Dafoe Prize for Distinctive Writing

This volume describes in fascinating detail the abiding liberal Pierre Trudeau’s quixotic confrontations with his neo-conservative opponents, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. A masterful analysis of the country’s political economy in the decades following World War II, it suggests that Trudeau’s delusion was that Canada could pursue a policy independent of her neighbours to the south.

About the Author

Stephen Clarkson is a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto. A frequent commentator on Canadian affairs in both French and English media, he is the author of several books on national and international politics including the prize-winning Canada and the Reagan Challenge.

Christina McCall is a writer of literary non-fiction who has worked as a socio-political analyst for Maclean’s, Saturday Night, and the Globe and Mail. Grits, her portrait of the Liberal Party, was acclaimed as “one of the most important Canadian books of the 1980’s” and her work has won major awards.

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