Author: Jean Chretien. Published by Key Porter Books, Toronto, ON., 1985. 1st Edition. Flat Signed by the Author & re-dedicated by first owner. Printed in Canada by T.H. Best. Like New Condition HARDCOVER Book with minor age-yellowing. Almost New Dust Jacket, with minor crease and slight tears. Size: 9.25 x 6.25 inch, 232 pages including Index.
STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART is an entertaining, insightful first-person account of Chretien`s early days organizing for the Liberals in rural Quebec, and how a young French-speaking MP learned the ropes in an English-dominated capital.
In 1963, at the age of twenty nine, The Rt. Hon. JEAN CHRETIEN was first elected to Parliament. Four years later he was given his first Cabinet post and, over the next thirty years, he headed nine key ministries. Jean Chretien served as Canada's twentieth prime minister from 1993 to 2003. In this book he details his pride at becoming Canada's first French-Canadian Prime Minister of Finance, and of the dramatic battles he fought side-by-side with Pierre Trudeau to win the 1980 Quebec referendum and patriate the Constitution with the Charter of Rights. It includes behind-the-scenes descriptions of his two leadership bids and the election campaign that led to a majority Liberal government in 1993.
