Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades In The Fight For Equality Hardcover

Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades In The Fight For Equality HardcoverPart memoir, part history, part political manifesto, Seeking Social Democracy offers the first full length treatment of Ed Broadbents ideas and remarkable seven decade engagement in public life. In dialogue with three collaborators from different generations, Broadbent leads readers through a life spent fighting for equality in Parliament and beyond: exploring the formation of his social democratic ideals, his engagement on the international stage,

to the contentious national debate over Canada’s constitution

The result is an engaging

and his relationships with historical figures from Pierre Trudeau and Fidel Castro to Tommy Douglas

Part memoir

Broadbent’s analysis also points toward the future

and the nature of democratic leadership

part political manifesto

philosophy

In dialogue with three collaborators from different generations

René Lévesque

to the free trade election of 1988

part history