From the archives

That Ever Governed Frenzy

Through the eyes of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Michael Wernick

Jeffrey Simpson

Rumble on Parliament Hill

In the ring with Justin Trudeau

Curtis Gillespie

Return of the Robber Barons

Chrystia Freeland asks if we can tell “makers” from “takers” among the new super-rich

Donald J. Johnston

A Full and Sympathetic Accounting

A new biography draws out the Shakespearean dimensions of a politician's life and death.

Jonathan Manthorpe

Public Triumph, Private Tragedy: The Double Life of John P. Robarts

Steve Paikin

Viking

276 pages, hardcover

ISBN: 067004329X

Jonathan Manthorpe

Jonathan Manthorpe is international affairs columnist for the Vancouver Sun. He is author of Power and the Tories: Ontario Politics, 1943 to the Present (Macmillan, 1974) and The Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan, forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan later this year.