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‘I was less interested in the man than the mania,’ says Litt of new book on Pierre Trudeau

Historian Paul Litt dives into Trudeaumania and comes up with fresh, new perspectives.

October 24, 2016

OTTAWA—It's been more than 48 years since Pierre Elliott Trudeau was elected leader of the Liberal Party way back in April 1968 and swept the nation as prime minister two months later, but Paul Litt still wanted to find what made Trudeaumania tick. What was Trudeaumania all about? What was its so...

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