True blue Tory: A lifelong Tory's inside perspective on the party and its key personalities and events, from the last days of John Diefenbaker to the present challenges of Jean Charest Hugh Segal knew the personal toll would be great; the financial costs enormous; the cause, well, with the party at 9% in the polls, almost straight uphill; and it would be the ultimate conceit to think he could make a difference. So, he did what only Hugh Segal could do, and accepted the job as senior policy advisor and then Chief of Staff to ...
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True blue Tory: A lifelong Tory's inside perspective on the party and its key personalities and events, from the last days of John Diefenbaker to the present challenges of Jean Charest Hugh Segal knew the personal toll would be great; the financial costs enormous; the cause, well, with the party at 9% in the polls, almost straight uphill; and it would be the ultimate conceit to think he could make a difference. So, he did what only Hugh Segal could do, and accepted the job as senior policy advisor and then Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney at a point when many thought the Titanic had already hit the iceberg. Few Canadians have worked as long or hard for the Progressive Conservative cause in Canada, and few are better known, more candid, insightful or humorous. A key player in the twenty months before Brian Mulroney's retirement, Hugh was witness to the process that saw Kim Campbell take over the party and lead it to its most stunning defeat ever. In No Surrender this most public of Tories gives his private insights on the core mission of the party, its successes and failures, as evidenced by his experiences under Stanfield, Clark and Mulroney federally, and his vantage point as one of Bill Davis' more prominent advisors. This intelligent, witty and candid analysis combines memoir with battle strategies, character and public policy analysis to put the present Conservative circumstance in clear and precise perspective, from the vantage point of someone who was himself asked by prominent Tory ministers to seek the leadership against Kim Campbell.
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Add this copy of No Surrender: Reflections of a Tory Warrior to cart. $18.00, very good condition, Sold by Hourglass Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vancouver, BC, CANADA, published 1996 by Harpercollins Canada.
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Very Good+ in Near Fine, Not Price Clipped jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) First edition, first printing as evidenced by a complete number line from 1 to 10; inscribed by Hugh Segal on the front end paper: " To __-who has always been there! and who has never [surrendered]! , Love, Hugh, April, 1996; " also a gift inscription to previous owner opposite the acknowledgements page; minor edge wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectable condition; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author This item cannot be shipped to any delivery address located in the state of California. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Hugh Segal is that rare political animal: a Progressive Conservative partisan who is liked and respected by members of all political parties. A regular commentator on CTV and CBC television, his characteristic wit has made him one of Canada's favourite political pundits. Known for his fair, compassionate policies, this Red Tory is one of the most listened-to politicians of his generation-in the corridors of power and in the coffee shops of the nation. Politics is in Hugh Segal's blood-Progressive Conservative politics, that is. From that fateful day in 1962 when John Diefenbaker visited Montreal's United Talmud Torah Academy and his message grabbed a certain 12-year-old "by the throat, " Hugh Segal has been a happy warrior in the Tory crusade. His remarkable political career has spanned nearly three decades and been witness to both the rise and, more recently, the precipitous fall of the Conservative part in Canada. No Surrender provides unique insight into how government works in this country-and the politicians who run it-from someone who has seen it all. In many ways the ultimate insider, Hugh Segal-the prominent Tory who hails from working-class Montreal-has always prided himself on his clear-eyed, pragmatic, and, on occasion, humorous perspective on the party. No Surrender is candid, intelligent, and thoughtful, combining Segal's reflections on the core mission of the Conservative Party with private insights into the party's most powerful and controversial leaders, and its battle strategies past, present, and future. Jean Chretien's honeymoon with Canadians is clearly over in the wake of the 1995 Quebec referendum. Preston Manning's heartless brand of "barbed-wire" neo-conservatism will not create the kind of country most Canadians want. Lucien Bouchard wants to rip the country apart. What Canada needs today, Hugh Segal argues in No Surrender, are the principles that drew him to the Progressive Conservative Party in the first place and what that party-now so ably led by the dynamic Jean Charest-has always offered: order, stability, and responsibility. Hugh Segal is passionately committed to Canada, and has spent the last 30 years proving it. He has been Associate Secretary of Cabinet for Bill Davis in Ontario and Legislative Assistant to Bob Stanfield. He was a senior polity advisor and then Chief of Staff to former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. He was urged by elected senior Conservatives to run against Kim Campbell for leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1993. He is now both an Associate at the Toronto-based investment counsel firm of Gluskin Sheff and a Resident Fellow at the Queen's University School of Policy Studies.
Add this copy of No Surrender: Reflections of a Tory Warrior to cart. $53.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Harpercollins Canada.
