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Author: Kent   Tom  

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press‎

Publication year: 1988

E-ISBN: 9780773561649

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773506497

Subject: D0 Political Theory

Keyword: 政治理论

Language: ENG

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In the clear, vigorous, and candid prose that is his trade mark, Kent recalls his role in the crises and triumphs of the Pearson government: the "Sixty Days of Decision," Walter Gordon's first budget, the flag debate, Medicare, the elventh-hour negotiations with Jean Lesage that averted a constitutional rupture over the Canada Pension Plan, and, after 1965, Pearson's increasing exhaustion and disenchantment. From the Pearson years, the book moves to the Trudeau impact on Ottawa, the regional development program, and the disagreement on economic policy that led Kent to leave Ottawa in 1971.

Chapter

PART ONE: GETTING DEFEATED

1 Coming From

2 Do as I Say ...

3 The Press in Politics

4 Howe's Canada

5 The 1957 Election

PART TWO: REMAKING A PARTY

6 Getting Involved

7 No Bigger Mistake

8 The First Platform

9 Transition to Kingston

10 Rallying

11 Preparing an Election

PART THREE: GETTING ELECTED

12 The '62 Campaign

13 All Good Men ...

14 Organizing Opposition

15 The Nuclear Error

16 Victory, of a Sort

PART FOUR: BEGINNING TO GOVERN

17 Fifty-Two Days

18 Retreat and Reorganization

PART FIVE: DOING WHAT WE SAID

19 Pensions: The Phoney Stage

20 Co-operative Federalism

21 Sixteen Days in April

22 The CPP Achieved

23 The Federal State

24 Cabinet Shuffles

25 The World Outside

26 Publications

27 The Flag and the Death Wish

28 Success, but Short Vision

29 At War

30 Medicare

PART SIX: UNFINISHED BUSINESS

31 Failures, and Turnabout

32 Changing Structures

33 Baby on the Doorstep

34 Battle Lost, War to Win

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