Posted on 30/09/06
Chrétien's Machiavelli
The Way It Works: Inside OttawaBy Eddie GoldenbergMcClelland & Stewart,402 pages. $36.99Oddly, you get a much better personal sense of former prime minister Jean Chrétien from Straight from the Heart, the editor-crafted, mid-career autobiography that he produced 20 years ago, than you get from The Way It Works, the memoirs of the eminent political adviser who worked at Chrétien's side for more than 30 years. You would think that the reverse would be true -- that Eddie Goldenberg, however loyal to Chrétien he would naturally remain, couldn't help but reveal more of the tough guy from Shawinigan who became Canada's most consistently underrated political leader of the 20th century.
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