Citizen Trudeau
An Intellectual Biography, 1944-1965
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Canada
- Date of Publication 18 February 2016
- ISBN 9780199005963
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 230x160x38 mm
- Weight 706 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 photos 0
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Short description:
Allen Mills' study of the intellectual development of the young Pierre Trudeau is unique and exceptional, the work of a career in political philosophy. Mills' beautifully written biography encompasses Trudeau's intellectual and physical journeys as a young man through Quebec, North America, and Europe, and eventually much of the rest of the world. Examining a range of sources, including Trudeau's private papers, his university essays, and his articles in the political journal Cité Libre, Mills maps out the evolution of his thinking in a variety of areas, including Quebec and French Canada, religion, the state and economics, international affairs, federalism and the constitution and party politics.
MoreLong description:
Pierre Elliot Trudeau was a man of deep intellect, of strongly held philosophy, and of bold - if not occasionally audacious - personality. He was no high-minded, distant philosopher-ruler however. A consummate pragmatist, Trudeau sought to be a moral man of action. This important work looks his intellectual evolution as a young man, in the years before he entered politics.
Beautifully written, this biography also paints a fascinating, colourful and multilayered portrait of Trudeau. Born into a wealthy family, Trudeau's years among then-Jesuits at Brébeuf College in Montreal were formative, among other reasons for what would become his long-term interaction with Catholicism. Following law school at University of Montreal, Trudeau studied at Harvard in the US, at LSE in London, England, and at Sciences Po in Paris. Mills' considers the biggest influences on Trudeau, including Harold Laski, Jacques Maritain, and Emmanuel Mounier. Mills also recounts Trudeau's travels across the world throughout the 1950s, travelling in Europe, the Near and Far East, Egypt and Sudan, the USSR, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand, regions in West Africa, Israel, Vietnam, Persia and Taiwan. A chapter considers Trudeau's evolving thought on Federalism and Nationalism, both internationally and in terms of Quebec and Canada. A chapter on Trudeau's moralism highlights his belief that politics requires individuals of conscience, who have the courage to speak frankly about their beliefs.
Mills' biography shows us that understanding Trudeau the thinker is key to understanding Trudeau the politician, whose life was both a practical and a theoretical one. He was a cool political thinker who believed that clear analysis of political questions was essential to good governance.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
A Portrait of the Activist as a Young Man
Trudeau Agonistes
Mounier, Maritain and Laski: Getting an Education
Trudeau's Profound Moralism: The Matter of Quebec
Church and State
Socialism and Economics
Trudeau Abroad
Federalism and Nationalism
To the Liberal Station: Trudeau's Surprising Terminus
Afterword
