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Biography & Autobiography Political

Brian Mulroney

The Boy from Baie-Comeau

by (author) Rae Murphy, Nick Auf der Maur & Robert Chodos

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1984
Category
Political, Military, General, Historical, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780888626936
    Publish Date
    Jan 1984
    List Price
    $35.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887801372
    Publish Date
    Jan 1985
    List Price
    $9.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552771174
    Publish Date
    Feb 2008
    List Price
    $35.00

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Before the GST and before Free Trade, Brian Mulroney was a small-town boy who announced at age nineteen that he would one day be Prime Minister. This is his story.

Growing up in the remote company town of Baie-Comeau, Mulroney was immersed in Québécois culture, in a close-knit community with an enduring social order and spirit of self-help. A hardworking electrician's son, he wanted to be "the guy who makes things happen." Mulroney pursued that goal through a meteoric career as a labour lawyer, an unswerving partisan for the Conservative cause in Quebec, the president of a major corporation. In 1984, equipped with a deep understanding of Quebec, a small-town sense of social compassion, and skill as a negotiator and businessman, he was ready to take on the nation.

Informed by interviews with Mulroney, his aides and enemies, Brian Mulroney: The Boy from Baie Comeau is a remarkable portrait of the political ascent of one of Canada's most controversial Prime Ministers.

About the authors

RAE MURPHY is a retired professor of Canadian studies at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario.

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NICK AUF DER MAUR was a legendary Montreal journalist and politican. He died in 1998.

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ROBERT CHODOS is an experienced author and translator who has published widely in the fields of Canadian business, politics, and transportation and of Quebec history. Among his most recent books are The Unmaking of Canada (1991), Lost in Cyberspace? (1997), and Paul Martin: A Political Biography (1998), all co-written with Rae Murphy and Eric Hamovitch, and all published by Lorimer.

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