The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975 - Couverture rigide

Meggs, Geoff; Mickleburgh, Rod

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1550175793 ISBN 13 : 9781550175790

Editeur : Harbour Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

At his first cabinet meeting Premier Dave Barrett takes off his shoes, leaps onto the leather-inlaid cabinet table and skids the length of the room. "Are we here for a good time or a long time?" he roars. His answer: a good time, a time of change, action, doing what was needed and right, not what was easy and conventional. He set the tone for a government that changed the face of the province. During the next three years, he and his team passed more legislation in a shorter time than any government before or since. A university or college student graduating today in BC may have been born years after Barrett's defeat, but could attend a Barrett daycare, live on a farm in Barrett's Agricultural Land Reserve, be rushed to hospital in a provincial ambulance created by Barrett's government and attend college in a community institution founded by his government. The continuing polarization of BC politics also dates back to Barrett--the Fraser Institute and the right-wing economic policies it preaches are as much a legacy of the Barrett years as the ALR. Dave Barrett remains a unique and important figure in BC's history, a symbol of how much can be achieved in government and a reminder of how quickly those achievements can be forgotten. This lively and well-researched book is the first in-depth study of this most memorable of BC premiers.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Geoff Meggs is currently the chief of staff to BC Premier John Horgan. He has been a journalist, Vancouver city councillor and executive director of the BC Federation of Labour. He is the author of several books, including Salmon: The Decline of the West Coast Fishery (Douglas & McIntyre, 1991), which won the Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing. He lives in Victoria, BC.

Rod Mickleburgh is a former labour reporter for the Vancouver Sun and Province and senior writer for The Globe and Mail. He is also the author of The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 19721975 (co-authored with Geoff Meggs).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harbour Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1550175793
• ISBN 13: 9781550175790
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible