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Peter C. Newman, the author of books about John Diefenbaker, Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, as well as 2004s 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 Canadas most cussed and discussed political commentator. Here, his no-holds-barred profile of Canadas 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. Stunningly indiscreet and savagely frank, Mulroney is the first prime minister to be so nakedly outspoken. Yet he is also revealed as a witty Irish charmer, ready with a quick line to raise a laugh, no matter how impudent or profane, a man as warm in private as he was defensive in the public eye.
Mulroney names the names and spills the beans about what really goes on in Ottawa, which he describes as a sick city that runs on goddamned incest: Theyre all married to one another. Theyre shacked up with one another. Their wives are on the payroll of the CBC. Its just awful. Lucien Bouchard, his one-time soulmate, he calls bitter and profane and extraordinarily vain. He writes off his constitutional foe, former Newfoundland premier Clyde Wells, as an unprincipled son of a bitch. His disgust for the press is as monumental as his sense of being misunderstood, and in his eyes the Ottawa press corps are a phony bunch of bastards who dont give him credit even when the world applauds him for being one of the three men who played the most important role in the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
Out of The Secret Mulroney Tapes emerges a startling picture of the politician whose reign shocked and appalled and yet also revolutionized this country. No other prime minister in Canadian history aroused a stronger emotional response than Brian Mulroney. This book provides Canadians with a unique insight into the bold politician who changed their country like no other.
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Praise for The Secret Mulroney Tapes
Its Canadas Nixon moment. The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister, the edited transcripts of hundreds of hours of interviews with the former conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney (who served from 1984 to 1993), has revealed a foul-mouthed, insecure man with an enemies list that sprawls from Vancouver to Halifax.
The New York Times
Its full-frontal political nudity, seldom seen in a nation that keeps its ugly political flesh locked up in archives with no peep-holes.
The London Free Press
Its safe to say The Secret Mulroney Tapes is Peter C. Newmans most controversial book to date.
Vancouver Island News Group
How valuable is this book against the other Mulroney biographies? Initially one is drawn by the explosive quotes, but what sustains interest is Newmans insight and ability to view his subject through different lenses. He neatly weaves the political with the personal, the historical with trivial.
The Hamilton Spectator
The clandestine undertaking, perhaps unprecedented in Canadian publishing history, worked.
Cape Breton Post
Its a speedy read, from one wickedly daring jump to the other, and it displays a world leader as youve never heard him before. Youll get a sore head from shaking it as you read.
The Vancouver Sun
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Flame of Power: Intimate Profiles of Canadas Greatest Businessmen
Renegade in Power: The Diefenbaker Years
The Distemper of Our Times: Canadian Politics in Transition
Home Country: People, Places and Power Politics
Bronfman Dynasty: The Rothschilds of the New World
The Canadian Establishment, Volume 1: The Old Order
The Canadian Establishment, Volume 2: The Acquisitors
The Establishment Man: Conrad Black, a Portrait of Power
True North, Not Strong, and Free: Defending the Peaceable Kingdom in the Nuclear Age
Company of Adventurers: Volume I of the Unauthorized History of the Hudsons Bay Company
Caesars of the Wilderness: Volume II of the Unauthorized History of the Hudsons Bay Company
Sometimes a Great Nation: Will Canada Belong to the 21st Century?
Canada: The Great Lone Land
Empire of the Bay: An Illustrated History of the Hudsons Bay Company
Merchant Princes: Volume III of the Unauthorized History of the Hudsons Bay Company
Canada 1892: Portrait of a Promised Land
The Canadian Revolution: From Deference to Defiance
Defining Moments: Dispatches from an Unfinished Revolution
The Canadian Establishment, Volume 3: Titans
Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion and Power
I wish to thank Taivo Evard and Mario Conseco for their valuable assistance in organizing and double-checking the quotations from Chairman Mulroney, and Brian Bethune for his meticulous fact-checking. I am particularly grateful for having been allowed to log into the talent and energy of Anne Collins, chief editor and publisher of Random House Canada. She has been bountifully creative in her editing and charged me up with the enthusiasm and resolve that made this difficult book possible.
Charles Parnell Cassidy, God rest his soul, was the perfect specimen of an Irish politician. Theyre a migratory tribe, so you can find them everywhereBoston, New York, Chile, Vatican City, Liverpool, Peru and Sydney, Australia. Theyre hardy, resistant to infection by disease or new ideas, little modified by regional influences. The accent drifts a bit, maybe. The dialect adapts itself to the local patois: but thats a chameleons trick: protective colouring, no more. The rest of it, the sinuous mind, the easy passion, the leery eye, the ready smile, the fine, swaggering, billycock-and-shillelagh-walk, the flexible moralities, the bel canto oratory, the black bilious angers, these never change.
Morris West, Cassidy
1. Canadian people like me, you know?
Mulroney on His Rise to Power
2. You had an option, sir!
The 1984 Coronation
3. What did I do wrong?
Patronage and the Art of Politics
4. Goodbye Charlie Brown!
Scandals, Retreats and Flip-Flops
5. The sweetest deal ever known to man
The Meech Lake Accord
6. Canadians think Im an arrogant bastardthats not a bad position to be in
The Second Mandate
7. Grab em by their privates, and their hearts
and their minds will follow
The Mulroney Gang
8. First of the great betrayers
Lucien Bouchard
9. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
The Free Trade Crusade
10. A really sick place
Life in Ottawa
11. The Mila factor
Brians Greatest Asset
12. The dirty dozen
Some People Who Really Bugged Him
13. Even fucking Hitler got better press
Mulroney on the Fourth Estate
14. I Told You I Loved You, Now Get OUT!
The Perils of People Power
15. I led a revolution
Mulroney on the World Stage
16. What did they achieve?
Mulroney Rates His Peers
17. Keep your pecker up, Kim!
Severing Her Own Jugular
18. Keeping caucus happy
Walking Through Fire for Brian
19. The best since Sir John A.
Mulroney Rates Himself
20. About as ideological as that coffee pot
The Vision Thing
21. He needs a bit of praise, the poor bugger
Mulroney as Others Saw Him
The Mulroney Years
| March 20, 1939 | Martin Brian Mulroney born to Ben and Irene Mulroney in Baie-Comeau, Quebec. |
| 1961 | Graduates from St. Francis Xavier University with a bachelor of arts in political science. |
| 1962 | Attends Dalhousie Law School, and fails to pass his year. |
| 1963 | Graduates from Laval University with a bachelor of law degree. While there, helps organize the Congress of Canadian Affairs. |
| 1972 | Becomes partner in Montreal law firm Howard, Cate, Ogilvy. |
| 1973 | Marries Mila Pivnicki. |
| 1974 | Appointed to the Cliche Commission investigating union violence during the building of the James Bay hydroelectric project. |
| 1976 | Loses Progressive Conservative leadership race to Joe Clark. |
| 1977 | Appointed president of the Iron Ore Company, a subsidiary of Hanna Mining in Cleveland. |
| 1980 | Works in the No campaign during the first Quebec referendum. |
| June 11, 1983 | Defeats Joe Clark to become leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. |
| August 29, 1983 | Wins a by-election in Nova Scotias Central Nova riding to claim a seat in Parliament as leader of the Opposition. |
| July 9, 1984 | Prime Minister John Turner calls an election for September 4. |
| August 25, 1984 | In a televised debate, Mulroney derides the patronage record of the Liberals and criticizes Turner for accepting appointments designated by Pierre Trudeau. Turner replies, I had no option. |
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