RECENT CANADIAN POLITICAL BOOKS

Holding the bully’s coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire by Linda McQuaig  971.07 MCQ

• Why do so many of our prominent citizens endorse with enthusiasm the pushy, aggressive, imperial agenda espoused by the current Bush-Cheney administration in the United States?

French Kiss: Stephen Harper’s blind date with Quebec by Chantal Hebert  971.073 HEB

• The real subject is Quebec and how both the federal Liberals and the New Democrats, failed to seduce Quebec and explains the success of the Bloc Quebecois and the Harper Conservatives. Quebec is a political ecosystem operating under rules that are largely foreign to the rest of Canada.

Stephane Dion against the current by Linda Diebel  BIO 971.073 DIO DIE

• This book portrays a gutsy, clear-sighted ideas man who won the liberal leadership against contenders almost universally regarded as far heftier.

The Volunteer: a Canadian’s secret life in the Mossad by Michael Ross  BIO 327.125694 ROS

• This is the story of a 21  year old Canadian gentile from Victoria B.C. who winds up meeting an Israeli woman and falls in love with both her and her country.

Tilted : the trial of Conrad Black by Steven Skurka    345.73 SKU

• Skurka’s ongoing blog, The Crime Sheet, reported on the trial throughout from Chicago and Toronto in a nice mix of lawyerly analysis and whimsical rumination.

Harper’s Team: behind the scenes in the Conservative rise to power by Tom Flanagan  324.271 FLA

• Because of his practical involvement in politics no one is better positioned to write the first truly inside account of how Stephen Harper went from a private citizen to 24 Sussex Drive in the span of just 5 years.