Book Launch / Lancement - Lloyd Axworthy : My Life in Politics

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Thu Nov 21 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

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Library and Archives Canada | Ottawa, ON

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Join us for the launch of Lloyd Axworthy's memoir, My Life in Politics. Joignez-vous à nous pour le lancement du mémoire de Lloyd Axworthy.
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Library and Archives Canada invites you to an engaging discussion with Lloyd Axworthy and journalist Sally Armstrong during the launch of his newly released memoir, My Life in Politics.

In this stirring and beautifully written memoir, Lloyd Axworthy tells the unlikely story of a Canadian prairie boy, raised in the Social Gospel tradition, who studied politics at Princeton at the height of John F. Kennedy’s Camelot, marched for civil rights in Alabama, and returned to Canada to embark on an illustrious political career of his own at the height of Trudeaumania.

Axworthy served twenty-one years in Parliament, more than half of those in the cabinets of Pierre Trudeau, John Turner and Jean Chrétien. With extraordinary candour and introspection, he invites readers inside his roles in some of the most important political stories of the last half-century, including the enactment of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the great debate over the Canada-US free trade agreement, and the global fights to ban landmines and establish the International Criminal Court.

Offering unforgettable vignettes of encounters with a range of characters, Axworthy also writes frankly about the disappointments of political life and the challenges of staying true to progressive ideals while dealing with the often-brutal requirements of political power. In an open, personal manner, he tells of how his wife and a network of family, colleagues and friends helped him stay the course.

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Bibliothèque et Archives Canada vous invite à une passionnante discussion (en anglais seulement) avec la journaliste Sally Armstrong et l’ancien ministre Lloyd Axworthy pour le lancement de ses mémoires intitulés My Life in Politics.

M. Axworthy y raconte avec élégance l’improbable histoire d’un garçon des prairies canadiennes élevé selon les principes de l’évangélisme social. Il a étudié les sciences politiques à Princeton au moment où l’ancienne administration de John F. Kennedy était associée au mythe de Camelot, a marché pour défendre les droits de la personne en Alabama, puis est revenu au Canada pour mener une brillante carrière politique à l’époque où la trudeaumanie battait son plein.

M. Axworthy a siégé au Parlement pendant 21 ans, passant plus de la moitié de cette période dans les cabinets des très honorables Pierre Elliott Trudeau, John Turner et Jean Chrétien. Avec une franchise et un sens de l’introspection hors du commun, il décrit son rôle dans certains des plus grands événements politiques des 50 dernières années, comme l’adoption de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés, l’accord de libre-échange avec les États-Unis, l’interdiction des mines antipersonnel et la création de la Cour pénale internationale.

L’auteur propose des anecdotes inoubliables sur ses rencontres avec des personnalités fort variées. Il aborde aussi les désillusions associées à la vie politique et la difficulté de conserver des idéaux progressistes dans le monde impitoyable du pouvoir. En toute franchise, il explique comment il a su garder le cap grâce à son épouse, sa famille, ses collègues et ses amis.

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