Needs No Introduction

Michael Harris and Donald Gutstein are authors of two critically acclaimed political books.  Michael Harris is the author of Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canada's Radical Makeover. In Party of One, investigative journalist Michael Harris closely examines the majority government of a prime minister essentially unchecked by the opposition and empowered by the general election victory of May 2011. Harris looks at Harper's policies, instincts, and the often breathtaking gap between his stated political principles and his practices. Harris argues that Harper is more than a master of controlling information: he is a profoundly anti-democratic figure. Against the backdrop of a Conservative commitment to transparency and accountability, Harris exposes the ultra-secrecy, non-compliance, and dismissiveness of this prime minister. And with the Conservative majority in Parliament, the law is simple: what one man, the PM, says, goes. Donald Gutstein has written Harperism: How Stephen Harper and his Think Tank Colleagu