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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Inside Story of John Turner's Troubled Leadership. FRONT JACKET PHOTO: Canapress. JACKET DESIGN: Falcom Design & Communications. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Preface 1 "I had no option" 2 The Legend 3 Bay Street Benevolence 4 The Coronation 5 Right Honourable Chaos 6 Election '84: The Flying Circus 7 My Kingdom for a Vote 8 The Inheritance 9 Homes Sweet Homes 10 Leader of the Opposition 11 "Bullshit Theatre" 12 The Odd Couple's Tour 13 Bagman's Blues 14 Turner Vision: A Hart to Heart 15 Review: A Dirty Little War 16 Cruising into Crisis 17 Adrift on Meech Lake 18 Shove Comes to Putsch. SYNOPSIS: John Turner seemed to have it all. He was the leader-in-waiting of the Liberal Party of Canada at a time when that meant he would become the country's seventeenth prime minister. With his Hollywood looks, his Bay Street connections, and his enduring political legend as the finance minister from the days when federal governments balanced budgets, he looked like the man who couldn't miss. But he missed, and missed badly. Reign of Error, the most explosive political book of this year, perhaps this decade, tells how Turner reached out for his destiny, grasped it ever so briefly, then had it slip through his fingers. Investigative reporter and senior political writer Greg Weston has probed behind the headlines of the Turner years to show what went so terribly wrong for the Liberal Party and its leader. Reign of Error takes us into the filing cabinets where the secret memos are kept, into the backrooms and boardrooms, the hotel suites and campaign planes, the capital's official residence, and the inner sanctums of the prime minister's office where the desperate drama of the Liberal Party's collapse was played out. Based on exhaustive research and extensive interviews with frontline participants, this book makes clear how Turner and the Liberal Party were the fumbling authors of their own misfortune. How the party betrayed its soul in the hope of clinging to power. How Turner, bereft of a clear political vision and inspiring leadership, led the Liberals to humiliation and defeat. How have the Liberals fallen so low? Why were they beaten so badly? Why is the party that has governed Canada for most of this century in disarray and on the brink of bankruptcy? Why has their leader failed to live up to his legend? This, the inside story, tells how and why. Award-winning journalist Greg Weston has been the National Bureau Chief and Senior Parliamentary correspondent for The Ottawa Citizen since 1986. Born in Toronto in 1951, he began his journalism career as an editorial writer for The Kingston Whig-Standard, and went on to become a reporter and editor with The Toronto Star and The Citizen, where he was a senior investigative reporter prior to his present assignment. In 1984 he was awarded the prestigious Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard University, and in 1986 he won the Scales of Justice Award, the highest award for legal journalism in Canada.
