Trudeau, son of Quebec, father of Canada.
Max and Monique Nemni were friends of Pierre Trudeau. When they approached him for permission to write his intellectual biography, he agreed, and threw open all of his private papers to them.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
McClelland & Stewart,
[2006]-[2025]
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| Summary: | Max and Monique Nemni were friends of Pierre Trudeau. When they approached him for permission to write his intellectual biography, he agreed, and threw open all of his private papers to them. What they found there astounded and distressed them. They discovered that Trudeau, far from being the young rebel against authority that past biographers assert, was a model student who went along with what he was taught at Brebeuf and the University of Montreal. And what he was taught was that democracy was bad and that fascism - as represented by Mussolini and Petain - was good. Thus, even as a young man of twenty-three, Trudeau was ignoring the war in Europe and plotting a revolution to take Quebec out of Canada. The picture that emerges is of a Quebec elite that was raised to be pro-fascist, and where Nazi atrocities were dismissed as English propaganda. Only when Trudeau left Quebec for Harvard late in 1944 did he start to see the light. All of this is proved beyond a doubt as Max and Monique take us - in great scholarly detail - through the education of a future prime minister as, book by book, he records his thoughts, and we see his thinking being shaped. In turn, this shocking book will shape our thinking. |
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| Item Description: | Translated from the French. "A Douglas Gibson book." Vol. 3 published by Dundurn Press. |
| Physical Description: | 3 volumes ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781459755406 9780771067495 0771067496 9780771051258 0771051255 9780771051272 0771051271 1459755405 |