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.