Biography & Autobiography Political
Richard Hatfield
Power and Disobedience
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1992
- Category
- Political
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780864921178
- Publish Date
- Jan 1992
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
After seventeen years in power, Richard Hatfield had become the dean of Canadian premiers. Yet, in 1987, he lost every seat in the New Brunswick legislative assembly. Who was this man? And what brought him to such power and such disgrace? In this English translation of their popular biography of Richard Hatfield, award-winnning Acadian journalists Michel Cormier and Achille Michaud examine Hatfield's life and legacy: his political challenges (and foibles), the whole story behind the Atkinson affair and the Bricklin fiasco, the unseen twists and turns of the marijuana trial, Hatfield's enigmatic interest in constitutional issues, and his odd connection with the Parti Québécois. But these events are only part of the story. By melding the personal with the political, their own observations about this elusive politician with Hatfield's own words, Cormier and Michaud reveal more of Hatfield than has ever been shown before.
About the authors
Michel Cormier is the Executive Director of News and Current Affairs at Radio-Canada. He was the CBC and Radio-Canada correspondent in Moscow and Paris and, from 2006 to 2010, in Beijing, where he covered events such as the Sichuan earthquake and the 2008 Olympics and followed China's meteoric rise to economic superpower. Cormier has also reported on major events in Europe, the war in Afghanistan and the deaths of Yasser Arafat and Pope John Paul II. His coverage of the toppling of Eduard Schevardnadze in Georgia resulted in a Gemini-award nomination. Cormier is the author of four books, including La Russie des illusions, which was shortlisted for the Governor-General's Award for non-fiction in 2007. He has also won both the Anick and Judith-Jasmin journalism awards. His latest book, The Legacy of Tiananmen Square, was originally published in French as Les héritiers de Tiananmen.
Achille Michaud is the Toronto correspondent for Radio-Canada’s television public affairs program Le Point. Both journalists worked in New Brunswick during the Hatfield era.
