{"product_id":"defining-moments-dispatches-from-an-unfinished-revolution","title":"Defining Moments:  Dispatches From An Unfinished Revolution","description":"Description for DEFINING MOMENTS:  DISPATCHES FROM AN UNFINISHED REVOLUTION by Peter C Newman: \u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nCanada's revolutionary landscape - the new-breed society and economy evolving north of the 49th parallel -- has been fashioned out of a sequence of defining moments.  What they are and how they are being played out is the exciting subject of Peter C Newman's highly topical new book.  It is a worthy successor to his many bestselling volumes, including THE CANADIAN ESTABLISHMENT  and THE CANADIAN REVOLUTION. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nIn this book, Peter C Newman, whose prose has been compared to \"a mixture of ground glass and Turkish delight,\" describes the characters whose actions - and inactions - created the stormy Canadian reality of the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nWith his usual candour and incisive wit, Newman dissects the politicians, poets, tycoons and singers who made the history that matters.  He tackles all of the major figures whose passions and aspirations clashed in the past decade, including Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, Ken Thomson, Jean Chretien, Paul Martin, Paul Reichmann, Preston Manning, Lucien Bouchard, Irving Layton, Kim Campbell, Mel Hurtig and many others.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nThis new volume, which includes an analysis of why one of Canada's most prized icons - Eaton's - fell from grace, continues Newman's chronicle of how the loss of our institutional touchstones has permanently changed Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nDEFINING MOMENTS is exactly what the title promises:  a collection of bittersweet dispatches from the front lines of the many upheavals - social, political and economic - that reshaping Canadian society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nOn the tremulous edge of the next millennium, Canadians are citizens of a no-longer-peaceable kingdom whose future has become as unpredictable as a hailstorm.  Canada is at war with itself.  Like Stefan Kanfer's famous JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEARS, this book catures the times and characters who created the \"defining moments\" of our very own identity crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connies Bookshelf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42955556126936,"sku":"9780670876044","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/9099\/4904\/products\/DefiningMoments.jpg?v=1655014738","url":"https:\/\/conniesbookshelf.com\/products\/defining-moments-dispatches-from-an-unfinished-revolution","provider":"Connies Bookshelf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}