Waiting for the Wave: The Reform Party and the Conservative Movement

by Thomas E. Flanagan

Book Overview

In Waiting for the Wave, Tom Flanagan studies the rapid rise of the Reform Party and presents some fascinating insights into the party and its leaders. He corrects two popular misconceptions about Preston Manning: that his political philosophy is directly derived from his religious convictions, and that he is an extreme right-wing conservative. Flanagan examines Manning's strategy of populism (listening to "the common sense of the common people")...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773535683
• ISBN13: 9780773535688
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"