The Conservate party has seen tremendous change over the last decade, from a low of holding only two seats after the 1993 election through a return to power in 2006. Hugh Segal, author of the #1 national betseller No Surrender, has watched the party's transformation, and in The Long Road Back he delivers a cogent analysis of the forces--both Conservatives and Liberal--that have shaped it. At the same time, he provides an informed and impassioned examination of the nature of conservatism, which he feels must establish a broad economic and social context for our country's future success. Intelligent and provocative--and updated with a new afterword on the Stephen Harper government--The Long Road Back is a timely commentary on the contemporary political landscape in Canada.

The Long Road Back: Creating Canadas New Conservative Party

Politics & Social Sciences

Segal, Hugh

Politics & Government

HarperCollins, Publishers

Hugh Segal—whose intellect, understanding and passion for Canadian politics has made him one of our most read and respected policy pundits—wonders if Canadians are still committed to the “default” reality. That’s when voterschoose the Liberals—the default position— because it’s the least harmful option available and offers the greatest comfort level. When a Diefenbaker ora Mulroney, or perhaps now a Harper, manages to break through, the ultimatevoter backlash suggests that a Conservative Canada is an unnatural aberration that requires an immediate full-scale intervention. In a book that delivers an insider’s cogent analysis of the Conservative Party’s extreme makeover during thelast decade, Hugh Segal looks at both the Liberal and Conservative forces thatshaped the party’s transformation. He reflects on Mulroney’s partisan legacy andthe Campbell, Charest and Clark wilderness years that followed. He charts the riseof Preston Manning’s Reform Party and recounts how a Berlin-like wall betweenthe Alliance and the old guard Progressive Conservatives was eventually demolished.And he looks at the careers of key players like Peter McKay, Jean Charest andStephen Harper.
At the same time, Segal weaves an informed commentary on therole of the Liberals, as well as providing an intimate and impassioned analysisof the nature of conservatism, which he feels must establish a broad economicand social context for Canada’s future success. Segal, who has been an advisorto prime ministers, has criss-crossed the country on numerous campaigns and haspenned a national bestseller, has written another winner that puts the competingforces in our national politics in a lively, coherent and inspired analysis for anyonewho cares about the health and reach of democracy in Canada.

The Long Road Back

Hugh Segal is that rare political animal: a Progressive Conservative partisan who is liked and respected by members of all political parties and who is one of our favorite political pundits. He brings clear-eyed. pragmatic and humorous perspective to this candid and thoughtful memoir a book that reflects on the true mission of the Progressive Conservative Party and offers insights into Canada's most powerful leaders and their political strategies, past, present and future.  Forthright, wry and unabashedly partisan - like Hugh Segal himself - No Surrender is an engaging personal and political read.

No Surrender: Reflections of a Tory Warrior

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Harpercollins Canada

Hugh Segal is that rare political animal: a Progressive Conservative partisan who is liked and respected by members of all political parties and who is one of our favorite political pundits. He brings clear-eyed. pragmatic and humorous perspective to this candid and thoughtful memoir a book that reflects on the true mission of the Progressive Conservative Party and offers insights into Canada's most powerful leaders and their political strategies, past, present and future. 
 Forthright, wry and unabashedly partisan - like Hugh Segal himself - No Surrender is an engaging personal and political read.

No Surrender

Harper-perennial

Election: The issues, the strategies, the aftermath

Kirby, Michael

Caplan, Gerald

Prentice-Hall Canada

In this short but persuasive book, life-long conservative Hugh Segal confronts the beliefs of the new right by exposing its roots, misrepresentations, and excesses--and makes the case for a civil conservatism that reflects a confident, yet sensitive socity, in which open debate tenders stability, social justice, and opportunity.

Beyond Greed: A Traditional Conservative Confronts Ne0-Conservative Excess (No Canadian Rights in the U.S.)

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Beyond Greed: A Traditional Conservative Confronts Neo-Conservative Excess

Philosophy

Stoddart Pub.

Beyond Greed : A Traditional Conservative Confronts Neoconservative Excess

Stoddart Kids

Bootstraps Need Boots: One Tory’s Lonely Fight to End Poverty in Canada

For more than four decades, Hugh Segal has been one of the leading voices of progressive conservatism in Canada. A self-described Red Tory warrior who disdains “bootstrap” approaches to poverty, he has always promoted policies, especially a basic annual income, to help the most economically vulnerable. Why would a life-long Tory support something so radical? In this revealing memoir, Segal shares how his life and experiences brought him to this most unlikely of places, beginning with his childhood in a poor immigrant family in Montreal to his time as a chief of staff for Prime Minister Mulroney and to his more recent work as an advisor on a basic income pilot project for the Ontario Liberal government. This book is a passionate argument not only for why a basic annual income makes economic sense, but for why it is the right thing to do.

UBC Press

For more than four decades, Hugh Segal has been one of the leading voices of progressive conservatism in Canada. A self-described Red Tory warrior who disdains "bootstrap" approaches to poverty, he has always promoted policies, especially a basic annual income, to help the most economically vulnerable. Why would a life-long Tory support something so radical? In this revealing memoir, Segal shares how his life and experiences brought him to this most unlikely of places, beginning with his childhood in a poor immigrant family in Montreal to his time as a chief of staff for Prime Minister Mulroney and to his more recent work as an advisor on a basic income pilot project for the Ontario Liberal government. This book is a passionate argument not only for why a basic annual income makes economic sense, but for why it is the right thing to do.

On Point Press

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