Teeth of Time

Download or read book Teeth of Time written by Ramsay Cook and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Ramsay Cook were friends for nearly four decades. A passion for the intellectual life drew them together but their friendship focused more on politics once Trudeau became prime minister. In The Teeth of Time Cook reflects on his relationship with Trudeau and the tensions created when one friend achieves political power and the other struggles to find the balance among his roles as detached scholar and teacher, involved citizen, and personal friend.