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The Coutts Diaries: Power, Politics, and Pierre Trudeau 1973-1981

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“The best Canadian political diary that exists” – John English, author, The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.


Jim Coutts, principal secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau from 1975 to 1981, was one of the most powerful men in Canada during those tumultuous years. Equally admired and attacked, respected and reviled, he was, in the words of one contemporary journalist, “a political phenomenon such as Canada has never known before: Machiavelli masquerading as a cherub.” The man who “e...