Mulroney, Brian: Memoirs: 1939-1993.(Brief article)(Book review)

From: Biography | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: Johnson, William | Copyright information

Mulroney, Brian Memoirs: 1939-1993. Brian Mulroney. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007. 1,121 pp. $50.00.

"The Memoirs provide enough personal and biting anecdotes to satisfy any political junkie.... Personality was his great strength, but personalizing everything was his great weakness as prime minister. And the flaw of this book is that he personalizes the greatest issue on which history will judge him: his attempt to rewrite ...

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