Seldom has there been a political leader so complex, so impossible to predict, so difficult to understand, so private and yet so public, as Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister from 1968 to
Seldom has there been a political leader so complex, so impossible to predict, so difficult to understand, so private and yet so public, as Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister from 1968 to 1979, and again from 1980 to 1984.
RICHARD GWYN, who is one of Canada's most highly-regarded and widely-read columnists, is best-known as the author of the best selling "The Northern Magus," the first major biography of Pierre Trudeau. He has written four other books, including the high-praised "The Unlikely Revolutionary," a biography of Newfoundland Premier Joseph Smallwood, Gwyn writes a bi-weekly column for The Star, on both national and international affairs.
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