In the 1970s, a thousand men formed Canada's unelected government—invisible, inbred, secretive, puritanical and tough-minded business-men dedicated to preserving the status quo—their status quo. In this fascinating and factual account, we see who had the power, how they achieved it, how they held onto it and how they used and abused it.
In this groundbreaking first volume of his Canadian Establishment series, Peter C. Newman traces the elaborate personal interconnections among members of the power elite, illustrates how authority moves, and exposes the methods used for its self- perpetuation.
