Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election. (book reviews)

This book about an election opens like a suspense novel: "On July 20, 1988, John Turner ... took the biggest gamble of his career." Will the gamble pay off or ruin the gambler? Most of us probably do not follow Canadian politics enough to know the ending right away. But even if we do, the plot is tantalizing. We are eager to learn what calculations motivated the gamble, what cards the other players in the game held and how they played them.

This opening sets the tone for a book that is both enlightening and captivating. The setting is the 1988 Canadian election. Like few ...

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