Peter C. Newman has been writing about Canadian politics for nearly
half a century, including books on prime ministers John
Diefenbaker, Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
His Renegade in Power (1963) revolutionized
Canadian political reporting with its controversial
“insiders-tell-all” approach. Four decades later, Newman has done
it again, with his ultimate insider book, The Secret
Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister.
The author of twenty-two books that have sold two million copies,
Newman has won a half dozen of the country’s most illustrious
literary awards, including the Drainie-Taylor Biography prize for
his 2004 memoir, Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People,
Passion and Power. A former editor-in-chief of the Toronto
Star and Maclean’s, Newman has been honoured with a
National Newspaper Award, has been elected to the News Hall of
Fame, and has earned the informal title of Canada’s “most cussed
and discussed” political commentator.
“Occasionally a book comes along that expands the human story to
include history, political analysis, anecdote, gossip,
self-critical autobiography and, most importantly, humour. Rarely
is such a book written in an elegant style. Peter C. Newman’s Here
Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion and Power manages to
showcase the last fifty years of Canadian political theatre, and
Newman himself as a commentator on that theatre, both humorously
and elegantly. Dragons is a big, ambitious book — arguably the best
of the many that Newman has written.”
—2004 Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize Jury
“We owe Peter C. Newman a large debt of gratitude for his riveting
new memoir.”
—Roy MacGregor in the Globe and Mail
“Far from being dry or dull, Here Be Dragons is scintillating, the
sort of book one wants to read in a single sitting. … It ends all
too soon.”
—Quill & Quire
“Brisk, humorous, astute, and brimming with interest. . . . A
must-read.”\
—London Free Press
“Racy, readable . . . a sensational smorgasbord of stories.”
—Halifax Daily News
“A disarming and reflective autobiography, candid and revealing to
the point of self-laceration.”
—Toronto Star
“A work of genuine wit and insight.”
—Rex Murphy
“His pointed, deeply affecting memoir deserves the applause of a
grateful nation.”
—Ottawa Citizen
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