Defining Moments: Dispatches From An Unfinished Revolution

Description for DEFINING MOMENTS: DISPATCHES FROM AN UNFINISHED REVOLUTION by Peter C Newman: Canada'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. In 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. With 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 M