A new book on Ignatieff

Clearly this wasn't something discussed when Ignatieff and Brian Mulroney had a little telephone chat a few weeks  back.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2009/06/c8838.html

It's a press release from Random House, announcing Peter C. Newman, legendary author and biographer, is turning his attention to the new Liberal leader. Which probably explains why Newman was sitting prominently in the front rows at this weekend's convention.

From the press release: "I want to write about Ignatieff because he's the most interesting
political figure in Canada today, and while he has written many books himself,
including a family memoir and autobiographical novels, nobody has written a
full biography of him," Newman says. "We haven't had a political leader whose
intellect is his defining characteristic since Trudeau, and it's fascinating
to watch the ways in which a man like Ignatieff reaches out to rebuild the
party and create relationships with voters. He has a real shot at becoming our
next prime minister. If he makes it, he'll be in a position to affect this
country's destiny, and I feel it's important to have a creative look at him."

Will Ignatieff co-operate with the writing of this biography? If Ignatieff had asked Mulroney's advice about  that, I'm sure this is the kind of thing he would have heard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfGx39FnlJU&NR=1

Mulroney, as you may recall, was not that pleased when Newman, once his official biographer, released a book of raw tape transcripts of their conversations.

Comments

[Ivan Rostoff]

I hope he broaches Ignatieff's statement when he as a "we Americans" Harvard professor of human rights, made this proclamation in outright support of the Bush regime:

"To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils : indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war." - Michael Ignatieff, NY Times Mag, 2004

Surely these are not Canadian values, and had a Conservative made such a statement he would be labeled the second coming of Hitler or Rasputin.