Trudeau book authors Wherry, Ivison talk challenge of penning political tomes as story unfolds

John Ibbitson, author of many books including a biography of former prime minister Stephen Harper, says it's 'unusual' for sitting heads of governments to sit with biographers.

Journalists Aaron Wherry, left, and John Ivison, right, both recently published books on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the lead up to the October election. Photographs courtesy of HarperCollins publishers, Twitter

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

August 28, 2019

It's “hard to write simple conclusions when the story itself is changing,” says Aaron Wherry, author of Promise and Peril: Justin Trudeau in Power, one of two new books on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. But John Ivison, author of Trudeau: The Education of a Prime Minister

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