Richard Hatfield: Power and Disobedience

By Achille Michaud and Michel Cormier

After seventeen years in power, Richard Hatfield had become the dean of Canadian premiers. Yet, in 1987, he lost every seat in the New Brunswick legislative assembly. Who was this man? And what brought him to such power and such disgrace? In this English translation of their popular biography of Richard Hatfield, award-winnning Acadian journalists Michel Cormier and Achille Michaud examine Hatfield's life and legacy: his political challenges (and foibles), the whole story behind the Atkinson affair and the Bricklin fiasco, the unseen twists and turns of the marijuana trial, Hatfield's enigmatic interest in constitutional issues, and his odd connection with the Parti Qu?b?cois. But these events are only part of the story. By melding the personal with the political, their own observations about this elusive politician with Hatfield's own words, Cormier and Michaud reveal more of Hatfield than has ever been shown before.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864921179
• ISBN13: 9780864921178
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Length: 253 Pages