Pierre Elliot Trudeau: The Fascinating Life of Canada's Most Flamboyant Prime Minister

by Stan Sauerwein

"To a rapt national television audience, the soft-spoken minister with the Caesar-style haircut calmly justified his bill, saying, "the State has no place in the bedrooms of the nation." This book... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551539454
• ISBN13: 9781551539454
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Amazing Stories
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

This is a great book!

I really loved this book and found it to be candid, well-researched and informative. I had just finished watching a video called, "Trudeau: The Man, The Myth, the Movie," which I liked until I realized how many errors it contained. That video declared that James Cross died in the FLQ crisis! A quick Google search for Cross shows that the man is still alive. Fortunately, Sauerwein got his facts straight.Although I was born in Canada, I grew up in New Jersey and spent 30 years there. I have since moved back to Ontario, so I'm a bit of a hybrid in that I'm part Canadian and part American. But I'm enough of an American that I didn't follow all of the FLQ details that closely at the time, so I found both the book and the video to be quite suspenseful because I couldn't remember how the story ended!Trudeau was brilliant, charismatic, controversial and stubborn. He was courageous and had his own unique and epic vision for Canada. He also came to power during a period when the country faced one crisis after another in terms of Québec, OPEC, and economics. Trudeau had some very tough decisions to make -- I would never have wanted to trade places with him in the FLQ hostage situation. Makes me think of Jimmy Carter's unpopularity that resulted directly from his passive approach to the Iranian hostage taking. Carter adopted that style because he wanted to save the hostages but it cost him the election, and as a result the United States swerved to the right with Reagonomics.At any rate, I would highly recommend this very well-written book. There were many occasions where the author could have chosen to sensationalize certain details about Pierre or Margaret Trudeau but he tastefully refused to do that. Kudos!My only complaint would be that a number of times, the word focused was spelled as "focussed." A French editor, perhaps :-)

Pierre Trudeau Rules!!

Pierre Trudeau,the reknowned Canadian Leader, rules in this great book.It's a must see!!