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The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister
by Peter C. Newman, ISBN: 0679313516
General description: Written by Peter C. Newman, ISBN: 0679313516, published in September 2005, further presents insights on the mentality of Brian Mulroney. Through his championing of "Free Trade" with the United States, Mr. Mulroney has been responsible for the selling-out of Canada to greed-driven American corporate interests. The nation-building efforts of former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau to affirm Canadian sovereignty toward the development of a socially progressive society, were systematically undermined by Mr. Mulroney political legacy as an apparent sell-out of the efforts of Prime Ministers up to Pierre Elliot Trudeau, to constructively support the development of a strong and independent Canada.
Peter C. Newman, the author of books about John Diefenbaker, Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, as well as 2004's number-one bestselling memoir, Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion and Power, has done it again. He has written twenty-two books that have sold two million copies, and earned him the title of Canada's "most cussed and discussed" political commentator. Here, his no-holds-barred profile of Canada's most controversial - and most reviled - prime minister breaks new ground.
Compiled from years of candid, taped conversations with Mulroney and the people closest to him while he was in power, the sometimes uproarious and often disturbing interviews - 7,400 pages of transcripts totalling 1.8 million words - have been sealed until now.
In this books, Mulroney calls Lucien Bouchard, his one-time political confidant as "bitter and profane" and "extraordinarily vain." He writes off his constitutional foe, former Newfoundland premier Clyde Wells, as an "unprincipled son of a bitch." |
