Max Nemni

Trudeau Transformed

The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965

Buch

This groundbreaking biography, now in paperback, continues the story begun in Young Trudeau, taking Canada's legendary Prime Minister from his pro-fascist youth all the way to his entry into federal politics as a crusading Liberal democrat.When he went to Harvard in 1944, Pierre Trudeau was twenty-five, a recent graduate of the University of Montreal Law School; true to his elite Catholic-French education, he had been till recently pro-fascist, and he disliked democracy. Years of graduate study at Harvard, then the Sorbonne, then the London School of Economics exposed him to new ideas, as did his hitchhiking travels around the world. Returned… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Nemni, Monique

ISBN: 978-0-7710-5127-2
EAN: 9780771051272
Produktnummer: 12458598
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 544 S.

Über den Autor

MAX and MONIQUE NEMNI are former university professors who in the 1990s acted as editors of the famous magazine Cité libre that was founded by intellectuals including Trudeau. When they asked their friend if they could write an intellectual biography of him, he agreed, and granted them access to his papers. Although the husband and wife team are bilingual and live in Toronto, they write in French.The translation is provided by GEORGE TOMBS, a well-regarded translator based in Montreal.