{"product_id":"9780771056932","title":"Hell or High Water: My Life in and out of Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working hard to make a better world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The next thing you know, I was in a jail cell.” (Chapter 2) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“From the moment I flipped his truck on the road home to Morinville…” (Chapter 3)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“When I came back into Aquin’s headquarters I had a broken nose.” (Chapter 4)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are not lines that you expect in a prime ministerial memoir. But Paul Martin — who led the country from 2003 to 2006 — is full of surprises, and his book will reveal a very different man from the prime minister who had such a rough ride in the wake of the sponsorship scandal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough he grew up in Windsor and Ottawa as the son of the legendary Cabinet Minister Paul Martin, politics was not in his blood. As a kid he loved sports, and had summer jobs as a deckhand or a roustabout. As a young man he plunged into family life, and into the business world. After his years as a “corporate firefighter” for Power Corporation came the excitement of acquiring Canada Steamship Lines in Canada’s largest ever leveraged buy-out, “the most audacious gamble of my life.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1988, however, he became a Liberal M.P., ran for the leadership in 1990 and in 1993 became Jean Chrétien’s minister of finance, with the country in a deep hole. The story of his years as perhaps our best finance minister ever leads to his account of the revolt against Chrétien, and his time in office.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreat events and world figures stud this book, which is firm but polite as it sets the record straight, and is full of wry humour and self-deprecating stories. Far from ending with his defeat in 2006, the book deals with his continuing passions, such as Canada’s aboriginals and the problems of Africa. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an idealistic, interesting book that reveals the Paul Martin we never knew. It’s a pleasure to meet him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030157082864,"sku":"9780771056932","price":12.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780771056932_p0.jpg?v=1763662128","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780771056932","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}