Book Launch – Lloyd Axworthy: My Life in Politics
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Library and Archives Canada invites you to an engaging discussion with Lloyd Axworthy for the launch of his newly released memoir, My Life in Politics. This event will be hosted by journalist Sally Armstrong.
Book description
In this stirring and beautifully written memoir, Lloyd Axworthy tells the unlikely story of a Canadian prairie boy, raised in the Social Gospel tradition, who studied politics at Princeton at the height of John F. Kennedy’s Camelot, marched for civil rights in Alabama, and returned to Canada to embark on an illustrious political career of his own at the height of Trudeaumania.
Axworthy served twenty-one years in Parliament, more than half of those in the cabinets of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, John Turner and Jean Chrétien. With extraordinary candour and introspection, he invites readers inside his roles in some of the most important political stories of the last half-century, including the enactment of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the great debate over the Canada-US free trade agreement, and the global fights to ban landmines and establish the International Criminal Court.
Offering unforgettable vignettes of encounters with a range of characters, Axworthy also writes frankly about the disappointments of political life and the challenges of staying true to progressive ideals while dealing with the often-brutal requirements of political power. In an open, personal manner, he tells of how his wife and a network of family, colleagues and friends helped him stay the course.
Event details
- Date
- Thursday, November 21, 2024
- Time
- 7 p.m. (Eastern time)
- Event admission
- Free admission, registration is required
- Event location
- Library and Archives Canada
Alfred Pellan Room
- Event address
- 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario
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