The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975
by Meggs, Geoff; Mickleburgh, Rod
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- ISBN 10
- 1550175793
- ISBN 13
- 9781550175790
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" At his first cabinet meeting, Premier Dave Barrett takes off his shoes, leaps onto the leather-inlaid cabinet table, and skids the length of the room. "Are we here for a good time or a long time?" he roars. His answer: a good time, a time of change, action, doing what was needed and right, not what was easy and conventional. He set the tone for a government that changed the face of the province. During the next three years, he and his team passed more legislation in a shorter time than any government before or since. A university or college student graduating today in BC may have been born years after Barrett's defeat but could attend a Barrett daycare, live on a farm in Barrett's Agricultural Land Reserve, be rushed to hospital in a provincial ambulance created by Barrett's government, and attend college in a community institution founded by his government. The continuing polarization of BC politics also dates back to Barrett--the Fraser Institute and the right-wing economic policies it preaches are as much a legacy of the Barrett years as the ALR. Dave Barrett remains a unique and important figure in BC's history, a symbol of how much can be achieved in government and a reminder of how quickly those achievements can be forgotten. This lively and well-researched book is the first in-depth study of this most memorable of BC premiers."
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- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE (CA)
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- Title
- The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975
- Author
- Meggs, Geoff; Mickleburgh, Rod
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1550175793
- ISBN 13
- 9781550175790
- Publisher
- Harbour Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Madeira Park, B.c.
- Date Published
- 2012
- Size
- 8 vo
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