{"product_id":"books-hell-or-high-water-by-paul-martin","title":"Hell or High Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eNational bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew -- in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working hard to make a better world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe next thing you know, I was in a jail cell. (Chapter 2) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the moment I flipped his truck on the road home to Morinville. (Chapter 3) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen I came back into Aquin's headquarters I had a broken nose. (Chapter 4) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese are not lines that you expect in a prime ministerial memoir. But Paul Martin -- who led the country from 2003 to 2006 -- is full of surprises, and his book will reveal a very different man from the prime minister who had such a rough ride in the wake of the sponsorship scandal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough he grew up in Windsor and Ottawa as the son of the legendary Cabinet Minister Paul Martin, politics was not in his blood. As a kid he loved sports, and had summer jobs as a deckhand or a roustabout. As a young man he plunged into family life, and into the business world. After his years as a corporate firefighter for Power Corporation came the excitement of acquiring Canada Steamship Lines in Canada's largest ever leveraged buy-out, the most audacious gamble of my life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1988, however, he became a Liberal M.P., ran for the leadership in 1990 and in 1993 became Jean Chr tien's minister of finance, with the country in a deep hole. The story of his years as perhaps our best finance minister ever leads to his account of the revolt against Chr tien, and his time in office. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGreat events and world figures stud this book, which is firm but polite as it sets the record straight, and is full of wry humour and self-deprecating stories. Far from ending with his defeat in 2006, the book deals with his continuing passions, such as Canada's aboriginals and the problems of Africa. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is an idealistic, interesting book that reveals the Paul Martin we never knew. It's a pleasure to meet him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53509941461265,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780771056932_b09a963b-ec84-4538-8809-a1f77dc375d9.jpg?v=1778169904","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-hell-or-high-water-by-paul-martin","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}