{"id":6749,"date":"2017-11-09T15:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T22:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/?p=6749"},"modified":"2019-01-02T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T22:03:18","slug":"featured-reviews-of-trudeaus-tango-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2017\/11\/09\/featured-reviews-of-trudeaus-tango-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Reviews of &#8220;Trudeau&#8217;s Tango&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"product_reviews_text\">&#8220;&#8230;Darryl Raymaker, has recently written an excellent book about Alberta and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/880-9781772122657-trudeaus-tango\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/holeinthebucket.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/9781772122657.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a>the Trudeaus, called<em>Trudeau&#8217;s Tango<\/em>. In his compendious book, Raymaker reminds everyone that the Trudeau name has always been controversial in Alberta\u2014but respected, too. The Trudeau name gave &#8216;Alberta Liberals hope,&#8217; Raymaker writes. The father, then\u2014like the son, now\u2014&#8217;was a man for his time\u2014new, youthful, superbly confident, tough and equally articulate in both official languages.&#8217; What made Pierre Trudeau appealing in Alberta in his era makes the son just as appealing in his.&#8221;\u00a0Warren Kinsella,\u00a0<em>HuffPost<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_text\">&#8220;After he sold his Calgary practice, Darryl Raymaker\u2014lawyer, corporate director, political junkie, folk music aficionado and raconteur\u2014embarked on a lifetime labour of love: a book about the wayward course of the Liberal Party in Alberta and its love-hate relationship with Pierre Elliott Trudeau during the prime minister&#8217;s first mandate (1968 to 1972) <em>Trudeau\u2019s Tango\u00a0<\/em>is the ably written result. [H]is book recalls a tumultuous political era with wry humour and a touch of anger.&#8221;\u00a0Frank Dabbs,\u00a0<em>Alberta Views<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A wonderful read that highlighted a little known side of Alberta&#8217;s political history. It is written like you are in conversation with the author, and the photos included were delightful. Highly recommend! K N Morrison, Top Customer Review on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Trudeaus-Tango-Alberta-Elliott-1968-1972\/dp\/1772122653\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;Darryl Raymaker, has recently written an excellent book about Alberta and the Trudeaus, calledTrudeau&#8217;s Tango. In his compendious book, Raymaker reminds everyone that the Trudeau name has always been controversial in Alberta\u2014but respected, too. The Trudeau name gave &#8216;Alberta Liberals hope,&#8217; Raymaker writes. The father, then\u2014like the son, now\u2014&#8217;was a man for his time\u2014new, youthful, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6751,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions\/6751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}