Promises to keep: A political biography of Allan Blakeney - Hardcover

Gruending, Dennis [Selected And Edited By]

9780888333247: Promises to keep: A political biography of Allan Blakeney

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0888333242 ISBN 13: 9780888333247

Publisher: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1990

Promises to Keep tells the inside story of former Saskatchewan premier Allan Blakeney, a Rhodes scholar who apprenticed as a senior civil servant and cabinet minister before becoming premier in 1971. In 1975, Blakeney nationalized half of his province's potash industry when multinational companies refused to pay higher taxes and royalties. In the 1980s, he battled with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau over the repatriation of Canada's constitution. Promises to Keep was the first biography written about one of the principal architects of social democracy in Canada.

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From the Back Cover:

Richard Gwynn called him "The Arab of potash." The Toronto Star called him "the best premier in the country." Weekend Magazine claimed that "only Saskatchewan's Allan Blakeney can match wits with Pierre Trudeau." To the eastern press he was "cool and capable," "dogged," and "utterly indefatigable." In Saskatchewan he was, like Tommy Douglas before him, "Tested and Trusted" -- until his humiliating defeat at the hands of Grant Devine's Tories in 1982.

About the Author:

Dennis Gruending is a Canadian writer, blogger, and former Member of Parliament. He has written or edited seven books, including biographies of Allan Blakeney, the former social democratic premier of Saskatchewan, and of Justice Emmett Hall, whose Royal Commission recommended Medicare for Canada. His book Great Canadian Speeches was a best seller and described by one reviewer as a history of Canada as seen from the podium. His eighth book,Speeches That Changed Canada, will be released by Fitzhenry & Whiteside in April 2018. Dennis writes two blogs: greatcanadianspeeches.ca, and pulpitandpolitics.ca. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

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