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When The Gods Changed: The Death Of Liberal Canada

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When The Gods Changed: The Death Of Liberal Canada

by Peter C. Newman

Random House Of Canada | November 22, 2011 | Hardcover

Peter C. Newman, Canada''s most "cussed and discussed" political journalist, on the death spiral of the Liberal Party.

The May 2, 2011 federal election turned Canadian governance upside down and inside out. In his newest and possibly most controversial book, bestselling author Peter C. Newman argues that the Harper majority will alter Canada so much that we may have to change the country''s name. But the most lasting impact of the Tory win will be the demise of the Liberal Party, which ruled Canada for seven of the last ten decades and literally made the country what it is. Newman chronicles, in bloody detail, the de-construction of the Grits'' once unassailable fortress and anatomizes the ways in which the arrogance embedded in the Liberal genetic code slowly poisoned the party''s progressive impulses.

When the Gods Changed is the saga of a political self-immolation unequalled in Canadian history. It took Michael Ignatieff to light the match.

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Peter C. Newman, Canada''s most "cussed and discussed" political journalist, on the death spiral of the Liberal Party.

The May 2, 2011 federal election turned Canadian governance upside down and inside out. In his newest and possibly most controversial book, bestselling author Peter C. Newman argues that the Harper majority will alter Canada so much that we may have to change the country''s name. But the most lasting impact of the Tory win will be the demise of the Liberal Party, which ruled Canada for seven of the last ten decades and literally made the country what it is. Newman chronicles, in bloody detail, the de-construction of the Grits'' once unassailable fortress and anatomizes the ways in which the arrogance embedded in the Liberal genetic code slowly poisoned the party''s progressive impulses.

When the Gods Changed is the saga of a political self-immolation unequalled in Canadian history. It took Michael Ignatieff to light the match.

About the Author

Peter C. Newman has been writing about Canadian politics for nearly half a century, including books on prime ministers John Diefenbaker, Lester B. Pearson, Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Brian Mulroney. His Renegade in Power (1963) revolutionized Canadian political reporting with its controversial "insiders-tell-all" approach. He did it again four decades later with The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister (2005), a number one bestseller that became one of the most controversial books ever published in Canada. The author of twenty-five books that have sold over 2.5 million copies, Newman has won a half dozen of the country''s most illustrious literary awards, including the Drainie-Taylor Biography prize for his 2004 memoir, Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion and Power. A former editor-in-chief of the Toronto Star and Maclean''s, Newman has been honoured with a National Newspaper Award, has been elected to the News Hall of Fame, and has earned the informal title of Canada''s "most cussed and discussed" political commentator.

Hardcover

304 Pages, 6.27 x 9.3 x 1.09 in

November 22, 2011

Random House Of Canada

English


0307358267
9780307358264

From the Critics

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Globe and Mail Best Book

 "The finest journalist of his generation, without equal here as a writer, editor and reporter…. An important, timely and engaging book…. Few do substantive, long-form journalism like this anymore, and no one does it with Newman's eye, ear and ego."
-The Globe and Mail

"Of all the literary lions who roamed the Canadian landscape, Newman is the fiercest."
-Toronto Star
 
"Newman has broken through the normal bounds of journalism to become an important diarist of our times."
-The Globe and Mail

"Canada made Newman and in some ways Newman made Canada."
-Winnipeg Free Press
 
"Peter C. Newman is an Icon. . . . The chronicler and conscience of a country often confused by its identity, he has been perhaps the most influential journalist Canada has ever known."
-January Magazine
 
"I'd never let you write my biography!"
-Margaret Atwood to Peter C. Newman
 
"Newman's insights confirm his reputation as a guardian of the best leaks in Ottawa."
-The New York Times

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