Author: Jack Austin with Edie Austin. Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, Kingston, 2023, 1st Edition. Signed by the Author. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition HARDCOVER Book, and Dust Jacket. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9.25 x 6.25 inch, 345 pages including index.
ULTRA RARE: This book was not only signed by the Author, but also dedicated to Iona Victoria Campagnolo PC OC OBC., who was a Canadian politician and served as the 27th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 2001 to 2007. Campagnolo was the first woman to hold that office. Prior to becoming lieutenant governor, she was a Cabinet member in the Liberal Government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
UNLIKELY INSIDER, by Jack Austin with Edie Austin, is a memoir by former federal cabinet minister and senator Jack Austin, and comes as a welcome reminder of the value of public service as a force for economic progress, social justice, and nation-building.
With both historical perspective and an eye to the future, Austin reflects on events and people whose impacts are still felt, and on the enduring challenges of Canadian life. Moving away from colonial domination of Indigenous Peoples, navigating our pivotal relationship with the United States and engagement with China, the nature and purpose of the Senate: these remain timely concerns, to which Austin has made significant contributions. Sharing insights into policy as well as into the personalities of colleagues and friends, Unlikely Insider paints vignettes of figures from Premier Zhou Enlai to Queen Elizabeth and recounts the author’s travels with Pierre Trudeau after the prime minister’s retirement. As a British Columbian, Austin worked to ensure that his province’s perspectives and interests mattered in Ottawa; as someone who came from a disadvantaged background, he is sensitive to the need to make the country a place of fairness and opportunity for all. Unlikely Insider reminds Canadians that inclusion – regional, social, and demographic – makes our nation both stronger and more just.
1st Edition Hardcover & Author Signed
ISBN: 9780228016243
GC&C Stock #3862
