Ron Graham
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From ![]() NEW! “Alone and very much in need of help”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham traces the political career of James Allan Coutts, a Liberal from Nanton, Alberta, through the early 1970s. He examines why Alberta proved hostile to Liberals, how Pierre … | Ron Graham | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “Big things now”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines a defining summer in Ottawa, when the Trudeau government, reeling from poor polls, chose between calling an election or staging a forceful television broadcast … | Ron Graham | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “Down to the short strokes”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the closing days of Canada’s 1980 constitutional reform, from September 30 to October 9, as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau navigated the entrenchment of the … | Ron Graham | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Editor’s IntroductionFrom: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham introduces the diaries of Jim Coutts, principal secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, serving from 1975 to 1981. | Ron Graham | 3 | 2025 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “Good news and bad”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the Liberal Party’s strategy for calling a federal election under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, Prime Minister Pierre … | Ron Graham | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “I am running”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the dramatic final weeks of 1979, when the Liberal Party toppled Joe Clark’s government and faced a leadership crisis (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, … | Ron Graham | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “I think it’s terminal”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the autumn of 1978, when Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal government faced an electoral crisis ahead of fifteen by-elections (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, … | Ron Graham | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! IndexFrom: The Coutts Diaries |
This "chapter" is an index. | Ron Graham | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “More comprehensive controls”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the Trudeau government’s response to inflation in early to mid-October 1975 (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudea’s … | Ron Graham | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “No sense of direction”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the turbulent final months of 1978, when the Liberal Party of Canada endured devastating by-election losses and a deepening leadership crisis under Prime Minister … | Ron Graham | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “Of two minds”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the December 1978 to January 1979 deliberations surrounding Prime Minister Trudeau’s decision to face the 1979 federal election (as told by the diary of Jim … | Ron Graham | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “On a power trip”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the autumn of 1980, when the Trudeau government finalized the National Energy Program and navigated the constitutional debate in the Senate (as told by the diary … | Ron Graham | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “On the attack”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the early days of Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s Liberal campaign for the 1980 federal election, from December 19 to 27, 1979 (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, … | Ron Graham | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “On the subject of me”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines June 14 to July 3, 1981, tracing Jim Coutts’ shift from senior advisor to Pierre Trudeau to Liberal Party candidate in the Spadina by-election (as told by … | Ron Graham | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “One of the tougher things”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines September to December 1974, the turbulent months following the Liberal Party’s federal election victory (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, Prime Minister … | Ron Graham | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “Our best people do not show great confidence”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the 1979 Canadian federal election campaign (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudea’s prinicpal secretary). | Ron Graham | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |




