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Memoirs by Pierre Elliott Trudeau is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Memoirs about?
Pierre Trudeau Was Prime Minister Of Canada From 1968 To 1979 And From 1980 To 1984. This Is His Story, Told In His Own Words. As If He Were Sitting Across The Table From You, Pierre Trudeau Reminisces About His Life In An Informal, Direct Way. He Starts With His Memories Of His Family, Especially His Mother And Father, To Whom The Book Is Dedicated. There Are Memorable Events From Childhood Here, Such As A Visit To Complain To The Principal On His Second Day At School. Later There Is A Lunchroom Encounter With A High School Bully And Then, At The Age Of Fifteen, Real Tragedy. After An Extensive Education At The Universite De Montreal, Harvard, The London School Of Economics, And The Ecole Libre Des Sciences Politiques In Paris (where Postwar Shortages Meant That He Had To Undergo An Appendectomy In A Hospital That Was Short Of Anaesthetics), Trudeau Set Off With A Backpack To Travel Around The World. He Tells How He Went Through One War Zone After Another, Encountering Armed Bandits And Narrowly Missing Pirates, And Being Arrested In Wartime Jordan As A Jewish Spy (where A Truckload Of Hostile Arab Soldiers Made It Clear That There Was Nothing To Stop Them From Killing Me And Dump
Who reads Memoirs?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart : Distributed in the U.S. by St. Martin's Press
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780771085888
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.97 / 5 (36 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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