John Duffy, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, October 15, 2005
"Tough reading aside, The Big Red Machine is nonetheless alive with clear, bright thinking. Clarkson "gets" electoral politics. He avoids the journalistic trap of generalizing the popular will, and has a good feel for the ordering of the electorate into coalitions. Liberal campaign planners should read this book, especially the chapters about the Trudeau campaigns, which challenge the memory of a charismatic juggernaut with an evidence-based portrait of spotty organization, weak strategy and frequently indifferent performance."
Richard Cleroux, The Hill Times, October 31st, 2005
It is a popular political history, rich in detail, sparse in language, packed with backroom anecdotes, well-documented information, and the incisive political analysis that only an academic of Mr. Clarkson's stature can bring to a controversial, political hot-seller.
