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Summers Will Never Be the Same

Chrétien, Jean

LAWRENCE,Martin

Biographies & Memoirs

Corgi

My Years as Prime Minister is Jean Chrétien’s own story, told with insight and humour, of his ten years at 24 Sussex Drive as Canada’s twentieth prime minister. By the time he left office, Jean Chrétien had been in politics for forty years – and his experience is evident on every page of his important, engaging memoir. Chrétien loves to tell a good tale – and he does so here in the same honest, plain-spoken style of Straight from the Heart, his earlier bestselling account of his years as a Cabinet minister. He gives us a self-portrait of a working prime minister – the passionate Canadian renowned for finishing every speech with Vive le Canada! Chrétien knows how government works, and his political instincts are sharp. Through the decade 1993 to 2003 we watch as he wins three majority elections as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Finding the country in a dreadful state, dangerously in debt and bitterly divided, he describes how his government wiped out the deficit in just four years, helped to defeat the separatists in the cliffhanger Quebec referendum, passed the Clarity Act, and set out to fulfill the economic and social promises his party made in its famous Red Books. He reveals how and why he kept the country out of the war in Iraq – a defining moment for many Canadians; led Team Canada on whirlwind trade missions around the world; and participated in a host of major international summits. Along with his astute comments on politics and government, he gives candid portraits of a broad cast of characters. Over a beer, Tony Blair confides his hesitation about taking Britain into the Iraq War; in the corridors of the United Nations, Bill Clinton offers to speak to Quebecers on behalf of Canadian unity; while at home, Chrétien reveals the events leading up to the departure of his finance minister, Paul Martin. He recounts the dramatic night in which his quick-thinking wife, Aline, saved him from an assassination attempt at 24 Sussex Drive; and, with lively humour, he describes how he and Clinton successfully escaped from their own bodyguards – to the consternation of all. Even in the highest office in the land, Jean Chrétien never lost his connection with ordinary Canadians. He is as warm and funny in his recollections as in person, at once combative and cool-headed, a man full of vitality and charm. Above all, from start to finish, his love for his country and his passion to keep it united run clear and deep.

My Years as Prime Minister

Leaders & Notable People

Knopf Canada

My Years as Prime Minister (Ron Graham Books)

Historical

Vintage Canada

One of the most popular Canadian prime ministers in recent history, elected to government for three consecutive majority terms, Jean Chrétien has some stories to tell. Recounted with warmth, insight and his distinctive sense of humour, these brief and candid essays feature many behind-the-scenes stories from a long, distinguished and colourful career. The book also features two sixteen-page colour photo inserts.\nOctober 2018 marks twenty-five years since Jean Chrétien took the helm as prime minister. In this collection of short essays, he has picked up his pen to reminisce about his long years in the public eye, and the many luminaries he met and worked with. 
Readers will learn why his commonsense judgment continues to influence our lives to this day, in ways both profound and subtle: from forging long-lasting relationships with foreign countries to making it easy to identify our national airline when we travel. He recalls a memorable trip with the royal family to the Northwest Territories in 1970, and how Ross Perot tried to influence his views on free trade in 1992. Of course, many familiar names figure in these stories, including George W. Bush, Boris Yeltsin, Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Pierre Trudeau, and Bill and Hillary Clinton. 
There are reflections on the many different posts over Chrétien's career, including becoming Canada's first-ever francophone finance minister. He pays tribute to old friends and colleagues, where the values of honour and dedication to public service transcend political views. He reserves his greatest admiration for his wife of more than sixty years, Aline, whom he calls his Rock of Gibraltar. 
These stories offer his unique perspective: we are at the Prime Minister's side on 9/11 when he is asked to give authorization to shoot down a passenger airliner that has not responded to identification requests. We learn how he attempted to correct the record as explained in his grandson's history book on the so-called "Night of the Long Knives." (Despite having special access to an eyewitness to history, his grandson got a failing grade on his paper.) There are even glimpses of the young Jean, as a teen canvassing with his father, and as a young man who dared complain personally to Premier Maurice Duplessis about the food at his seminary. 
Survival in politics requires stamina, creativity and toughness, as well as the ability to share a laugh now and again: qualities that the self-described "little guy from Shawinigan" never lost. In these days of "alternative facts" and politics-by-Tweet, these stories are a necessary antidote, told by a leader who always held fast to his vision of what Canada was and what it could be.

My Stories, My Times

Jean Chr?tien won the hearts of Canadians with his unabashed love of his country, his unwavering commitment to federalism, and his abiding faith in the people. In this reissue of his remarkable best-selling memoir, Chr?tien recalls in colourful and fascinating detail his beginnings as a populist lawyer from Shawinigan, his rise as an MP and cabinet minister, and, ultimately, his election as Prime Minister of Canada. Straight from the Heart is an entertaining, insightful first-person account of Chr?tien`s early days organizing for the Liberals in rural Quebec, how a young French-speaking MP learned the ropes in an English-dominated capital, his pride at becoming Canada?s first French-Canadian Prime Minister of Finance, and the dramatic battles he fought side by side with Pierre Trudeau to win the 1980 Quebec referendum and patriate the Constitution with the Charter of Rights. It includes behind-the-scenes descriptions of his two leadership bids and the election campaign that led to a majority Liberal government in 1993. This classic memoir is essential reading for anyone seeking an understanding of one of the most successful, skillful, and popular political leaders of our times. Praise for Straight from the Heart: ?Highly recommendable?What Chr?tien?s autobiography offers is a vision of one man?s considerable passion. Its sight line is clear, textured, and indisputably colourful.? ? Maclean?s ?Exuberant, slangy, light-hearted optimistic, and decent-minded.?? Winnipeg Free Press

Straight from the Heart

Key Porter Books

Straight from the heart

Jean Chrétien a été premier ministre du Canada de 1993 à 2003. Né dans une famille ouvrière de Shawinigan, dix-huitième de dix-neuf enfants, Jean Chrétien a étudié le droit à l''Université Laval. Il a été élu pour la première fois député à Ottawa en 1963. Il a occupé de nombreux postes dans les gouvernements de Lester Pearson et de Pierre Trudeau. Il a été le premier ministre des Finances francophone issu du Québec. Après avoir été défait dans la course à la succession de Trudeau en 1984, il s''est retiré de la politique en 1986. Quatre ans plus tard, il a été élu chef du Parti libéral du Canada et réélu à la Chambre des communes.En 1993, les libéraux ont remporté une éclatante victoire. Sous sa gouverne, le Parti a de nouveau remporté des majorités en 1997 et en 2000. À titre de premier ministre, il a parrainé l''adoption du premier budget équilibré depuis les années 1960-1970 et il a résisté aux pressions exercées par les États-Unis pour que le Canada s''engage dans la guerre en Irak. Jean Chrétien est également l''auteur d''un premier livre de mémoires, Dans la fosse aux lions, qui raconte sa vie et sa carrière jusqu''en 1994. Passion politique est son deuxième ouvrage autobiographique.Dans Passion politique, Jean Chrétien raconte, avec la complicité du journaliste Ron Graham et du romancier Daniel Poliquin, les dix ans qu''il a passés comme premier ministre du Canada. On retrouve dans ce livre le Jean Chrétien que tout le monde connaît : le politicien pragmatique, le Canadien farouchement attaché à l''unité de son pays. On découvre également un aspect de l''homme moins connu : le médiateur des grandes rencontres internationales. Mais, toujours, il étonne par l''acuité de son instinct politique et charme par le ton inimitable de son récit.Tout en nous dévoilant les rouages de l''exercice du pouvoir à Ottawa, Jean Chrétien nous propose une galerie de portraits croqués sur le vif et de savoureuses anecdotes.

Passion politique

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World

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