1979: The Government’s Defeat, the Party’s Decline, and the Leader’s (Temporary) Fall

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1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: Party Systems and Liberal Leaders 3
6. Victory, Fall, and Recovery
7. 1974: The Liberal Party and Pierre Trudeau: The Jockey and the Horse 31
8. 1979: The Government’s Defeat, the Party’s Decline, and the Leader’s (Temporary) Fall 51
9. 1980: Hiding the Charisma: Low-Bridging the Saviour 87
10. From Disappointment to Despair
11. 1984: The Dauphin and the Doomed: John Turner’s Debacle 109
12. 1988: Election or Referendum? Disoriented in Defeat 137
13. Power without Purpose
14. 1993: Yesterday’s Man and His Blue Grits: Backwards into Jean Chrétien’s Future 161
15. 1997: Securing Their Future Together 180
16. 2000: The Liberal Threepeat: The Multi-System Party in the Multi-Party System 206
17. Saved By the Far Right
18. Disaster and Recovery: Paul Martin As Political Lazarus 237
19. Conclusion
20. The Liberal Party As Hegemon: Straddling Canadian History 265
21. Appendix 285
22. Notes 291
23. Bibliography 316
24. Index 325