Call Me Giambattista, 21: A Personal and Political Journey

by John Ciaccia

What draws a person to the political life? In Call Me Giambattista, John Ciaccia recounts his immigration to Canada from Italy as a small child in 1937 to his retirement from the National Assembly of Quebec in 1998. After studying at McGill University's Faculty of Law, practising in a Montreal law firm, and shifting gears to work as a federal civil servant, a phone call in 1973 from Premier Robert Bourassa launched Ciaccia's twenty-five-year career...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773545778
• ISBN13: 9780773545779
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 9.1"