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Biography & Autobiography Political

What I Learned About Politics

Inside the Rise-and Collapse-of Nova Scotia's NDP Government

by (author) Graham Steele

Publisher
Nimbus Publishing
Initial publish date
Sep 2014
Category
Political, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771082105
    Publish Date
    Sep 2014
    List Price
    $21.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771082112
    Publish Date
    Sep 2014
    List Price
    $10.99

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Description

On October 8, 2013, Nova Scotia’s NDP government went down to a devastating election defeat. Premier Darrell Dexter lost his own seat, and the party held the dubious distinction of being the first one-term majority government in over 100 years. 

In this new memoir, former NDP finance minister and MLA Graham Steele tries to make sense of the election result and shares what he’s learned from a fifteen-year career in provincial politics. In his trademark candid style, Steele pulls no punches in assessing what’s right—and what’s often wrong—with our current political system. Includes an insert of colour photographs and a foreword from CBC Information Morning host Don Connolly.

About the author

Graham Steele was a member of the Nova Scotia legislature from 2001 to 2013. He was the minister of finance and minister of Acadian affairs (2009-2012) and minister of economic and rural development and tourism (2013) in the Dexter government. Graham is now heard regularly as a Nova Scotia political analyst for CBC. He is a Rhodes Scholar and originally from Winnipeg. The author of What I Learned About Politics, nominated for the 2015 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the 2015 Evelyn Richardson Award for Nonfiction, he lives in Halifax.

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