The fundamental things apply : a memoir /
MacLaren, Roy.
The fundamental things apply : a memoir / Roy MacLaren. - Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations
Includes index.
The memory of all that -- Let's do it -- Anything goes -- Nice work if you can get it -- There's no cure like travel -- S'wonderful -- Just one of those things -- More than you know -- It was great fun -- They all laughed -- Top hat, white tie, and tails -- A room with a view -- Past forgetting.
During the parliamentary years, from his first election in 1979 to his appointment to London in 1996, MacLaren draws on his diary to offer impressions - at times devastating, at others sympathetic - of those he encountered in his several ministerial capacities and global travels. Earlier, life in Saigon and Hanoi following the French Indo-China war, the oppressions of the Stalinist regime in Czechoslovakia, the erection of the Berlin Wall, multilateral diplomacy at the United Nations in Geneva and New York during the Cold War are recounted with both insight and humility. Of his business career, MacLaren offers, for example, an insider's perspective on the collapse of Massey-Ferguson and the successes of his business magazine company. A political memoir set in an autobiography, The Fundamental Things Apply ranges widely over Canadian economic and international affairs, including NAFTA and deficit elimination, during the latter decades of the twentieth century, offering a timely and personal account of how the public policies - both domestic and international - pursued then were formative in creating the country we live in today.
English.
9780773585775 (electronic bk.) 077358577X (electronic bk.) 1283529408 9781283529402 9786613841858 6613841854
9786613841858
384185 MIL 22573/ctt6t166 JSTOR
2011453617
20109076818
MacLaren, Roy.
MacLaren, Roy, 1934-
MacLaren, Roy.
Diplomats--Canada--Biography.
Politicians--Canada--Biography.
Ambassadors--Canada--Biography.
Businessmen--Canada--Biography.
Diplomates--Canada--Biographies.
Hommes politiques--Canada--Biographies.
Ambassadeurs--Canada--Biographies.
Hommes d'affaires--Canada--Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical.
HISTORY--General.--Canada
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--General.
Ambassadors.
Businessmen.
Diplomats.
Politicians.
Canada--Politics and government--1945-
Canada--Politics and government--1935-
Canada--Politique et gouvernement--1935-
Canada.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
F1034.3.M166 / A3 2011eb
971.064/092
The fundamental things apply : a memoir / Roy MacLaren. - Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations
Includes index.
The memory of all that -- Let's do it -- Anything goes -- Nice work if you can get it -- There's no cure like travel -- S'wonderful -- Just one of those things -- More than you know -- It was great fun -- They all laughed -- Top hat, white tie, and tails -- A room with a view -- Past forgetting.
During the parliamentary years, from his first election in 1979 to his appointment to London in 1996, MacLaren draws on his diary to offer impressions - at times devastating, at others sympathetic - of those he encountered in his several ministerial capacities and global travels. Earlier, life in Saigon and Hanoi following the French Indo-China war, the oppressions of the Stalinist regime in Czechoslovakia, the erection of the Berlin Wall, multilateral diplomacy at the United Nations in Geneva and New York during the Cold War are recounted with both insight and humility. Of his business career, MacLaren offers, for example, an insider's perspective on the collapse of Massey-Ferguson and the successes of his business magazine company. A political memoir set in an autobiography, The Fundamental Things Apply ranges widely over Canadian economic and international affairs, including NAFTA and deficit elimination, during the latter decades of the twentieth century, offering a timely and personal account of how the public policies - both domestic and international - pursued then were formative in creating the country we live in today.
English.
9780773585775 (electronic bk.) 077358577X (electronic bk.) 1283529408 9781283529402 9786613841858 6613841854
9786613841858
384185 MIL 22573/ctt6t166 JSTOR
2011453617
20109076818
MacLaren, Roy.
MacLaren, Roy, 1934-
MacLaren, Roy.
Diplomats--Canada--Biography.
Politicians--Canada--Biography.
Ambassadors--Canada--Biography.
Businessmen--Canada--Biography.
Diplomates--Canada--Biographies.
Hommes politiques--Canada--Biographies.
Ambassadeurs--Canada--Biographies.
Hommes d'affaires--Canada--Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical.
HISTORY--General.--Canada
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--General.
Ambassadors.
Businessmen.
Diplomats.
Politicians.
Canada--Politics and government--1945-
Canada--Politics and government--1935-
Canada--Politique et gouvernement--1935-
Canada.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
F1034.3.M166 / A3 2011eb
971.064/092