TY - BOOK AU - Pierre Elliot Trudeau and others AU - Pelletier Gerard Ed AU - Tombs, George Tr TI - Against the Current: Selected Writings 1930-1996 SN - 0771069790 U1 - 971.064 23 PY - 1996/// CY - Toronto PB - McClelland & Stewart Inc. KW - Canada Government and Politics KW - Studies and Travel KW - Early Political Writings KW - Nationalism KW - Einstein and Ralston Prize Lectures N2 - Gerard Pelletier has brought together a wide variety of excerpts and articles to make up this collection. It includes representative pieces from Trudeau's youth, selections from previously published books and journals, as well as speeches, interviews, letters written to newspapers, and classic essays from his time as a founding contributor to the magazine Cite libre. From beginning to end, whether writing about Utopia or the constitutional compromises wrought by his political opponents, Trudeau demonstrates that he has had no equal, counterpart, or successor in Canadian public life ER -