{"product_id":"9781550176490","title":"The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975","description":"At his first cabinet meeting Premier Dave Barrett takes off his shoes, leaps onto the leather-inlaid cabinet table and skids the length of the room. “Are we here for a good time or a long time?” he roars. His answer: a good time, a time of change, action, doing what was needed and right, not what was easy and conventional.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe set the tone for a government that changed the face of the province. During the next three years, he and his team passed more legislation in a shorter time than any government before or since. A university or college student graduating today in BC may have been born years after Barrett’s defeat, but could attend a Barrett daycare, live on a farm in Barrett’s Agricultural Land Reserve, be rushed to hospital in a provincial ambulance created by Barrett’s government and attend college in a community institution founded by his government. The continuing polarization of BC politics also dates back to Barrett—the Fraser Institute and the right-wing economic policies it preaches are as much a legacy of the Barrett years as the ALR.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDave Barrett remains a unique and important figure in BC’s history, a symbol of how much can be achieved in government and a reminder of how quickly those achievements can be forgotten. This lively and well-researched book is the first in-depth study of this most memorable of BC premiers.","brand":"Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137367392496,"sku":"9781550176490","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781550176490_p0.jpg?v=1763752565","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550176490","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}