Approaches to Politics

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Approaches to Politics
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
In the 1950s Pierre Elliott Trudeau was working out his funda-mental philosophy of politics. At the same time he was at the centre of every attempt to rally the forces of opposition to the corrupt and despotic Duplessis régime in Quebec. In 1958, for the weekly paper then edited by Jacques Hébert, he wrote a series of twenty essays on Quebec politics in the fifties that were enlivened by numerous witty and vigorous attacks on the spokes-men of reaction.
In the spring of 1970 Mr Trudeau, now prime minister, allowed Mr Hébert now a leading Montreal book-publisher, to reissue the essays in book form. They were published under the title Les Cheminements de la Politique and are presented here in English for the first time.
Besides being a fascinating commentary on the state of Quebec politics in the decade before the Quiet Revolution, the essays form a clear, simple, sober statement of the author's considered conclusions on the... Tovább

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Approaches to Politics
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
In the 1950s Pierre Elliott Trudeau was working out his funda-mental philosophy of politics. At the same time he was at the centre of every attempt to rally the forces of opposition to the corrupt and despotic Duplessis régime in Quebec. In 1958, for the weekly paper then edited by Jacques Hébert, he wrote a series of twenty essays on Quebec politics in the fifties that were enlivened by numerous witty and vigorous attacks on the spokes-men of reaction.
In the spring of 1970 Mr Trudeau, now prime minister, allowed Mr Hébert now a leading Montreal book-publisher, to reissue the essays in book form. They were published under the title Les Cheminements de la Politique and are presented here in English for the first time.
Besides being a fascinating commentary on the state of Quebec politics in the decade before the Quiet Revolution, the essays form a clear, simple, sober statement of the author's considered conclusions on the relations between the individual and the state, on the sources of political power, and on the nature of politics, justice, and democracy. They are essential reading for both the supporters and opponents of the man who rose so sud-denly to the leadership of Canada in 1968, because they set forth in fundamental terms what he believes government and politics to be about.
Ramsay Cook contributes an important introductory essay, The Corning of the Quiet Revolution', and Jacques Hébert's intro-duction to the originál French edition provides an essential persona! reminiscence of the Pierre Trudeau of the fifties. Vissza