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Author Kent, Tom, 1922-

Title A public purpose : an experience of Liberal opposition and Canadian government / Tom Kent
Published Kingston [Ont.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1988

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 441 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- Preface -- PART ONE: GETTING DEFEATED -- 1 Coming From -- 2 Do as I Say ... -- 3 The Press in Politics -- 4 Howe's Canada -- 5 The 1957 Election -- PART TWO: REMAKING A PARTY -- 6 Getting Involved -- 7 No Bigger Mistake -- 8 The First Platform -- 9 Transition to Kingston -- 10 Rallying -- 11 Preparing an Election -- PART THREE: GETTING ELECTED -- 12 The '62 Campaign -- 13 All Good Men ... -- 14 Organizing Opposition -- 15 The Nuclear Error -- 16 Victory, of a Sort -- PART FOUR: BEGINNING TO GOVERN -- 17 Fifty-Two Days
18 Retreat and ReorganizationPART FIVE: DOING WHAT WE SAID -- 19 Pensions: The Phoney Stage -- 20 Co-operative Federalism -- 21 Sixteen Days in April -- 22 The CPP Achieved -- 23 The Federal State -- 24 Cabinet Shuffles -- 25 The World Outside -- 26 Publications -- 27 The Flag and the Death Wish -- 28 Success, but Short Vision -- 29 At War -- 30 Medicare -- PART SIX: UNFINISHED BUSINESS -- 31 Failures, and Turnabout -- 32 Changing Structures -- 33 Baby on the Doorstep -- 34 Battle Lost, War to Win -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F
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Notes Includes index
English
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Subject Kent, Tom, 1922-
SUBJECT Kent, Tom. swd
Subject Liberal Party of Canada -- History
SUBJECT Liberal Party of Canada fast
Liberal Party of Canada gnd
Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Conservatism & Liberalism.
Politics and government
SUBJECT Canada -- Politics and government -- 1963-1968
Canada -- Politics and government -- 1957-1963
Canada -- Politics and government -- 1968-1979
Canada -- Politics and government -- 1945-1980. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019348
Subject Canada
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
History
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773561649
0773561641
9786612851087
6612851082
Other Titles Experience of Liberal opposition and Canadian government