Requiem for a Lightweight

Stockwell Day and Image Politics

• Author(s): Trevor Harrison,
• Publisher: Black Rose Books Ltd.
• Pages: 206
• ISBN_10: 1551642069
  ISBN_13: 9781551642062
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General , Biography & Autobiography / Political , Political Science / General , Political Science / History & Theory , Political Science / World / Canadian ,

Description:... This is the story of Stockwell Day--a small-town politician of modest accomplishments--whom the big boys with the big money, and the handlers with the smarts, thought could be sold as the Great Right Hope. This book chronicles it all: the people, personalities, and politics. Throughout, the question of media image is placed front and centre as the book explores the growing problem of rational democratic politics in an era of celebrity, image, and instant culture.