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Christy Clark biography coming
Heritage House publisher Rodger Touchie today announced plans to publish Christy Clark: Behind the Smile, a biography of British Columbia's 35th premier. "This book will provide the first in-depth look at the experiences and political milestones that have shaped the career of the province's first elected female premier,"; Touchie said. The book, due in stores by May 2016, will be authored by former Okanagan MLA and BC political insider Judi Tyabji.
Born in Burnaby, BC, in 1965, Christina Joan (Christy) Clark won her first election in 1996 and since then has defied odds, blazed trails, and weathered her fair share of controversy in the blood sport of BC politics. As education minister in the Liberal government of Gordon Campbell, Clark introduced changes to the K-12 system in 2001 that continue to reverberate fifteen years on. As Campbell's deputy premier, she was implicated in the scandal arising from the sale of BC Rail in 2003, then opted not to run in the 2005 election. In 2007 she began a three-year stint as a talk-show host at CKNW in Vancouver before making a startling comeback in 2011 to snatch the leadership of the BC Liberal Party, a feat matched only by her astonishing upset election victory over the NDP two years later.
"For all of her high-profile achievements, though, Clark remains an enigma to many,"; Touchie said. With the next BC election about eighteen months away, British Columbians are curious to know more about the woman behind the unflappable façade and trademark smile. "Who is this charismatic woman and where did she come from? What are her aspirations, personally and for the people of BC? How do her experiences as a single mother play out in her role as premier?";
For Judi Tyabji, a political contemporary of Clark who is no stranger to controversy herself, the book is an opportunity to bring balance to the public's perception of Clark. "This is the third time in my life where I have felt compelled to tell a political story from a perspective that is a little different,"; Tyabji said. "I'm delving back thirty years to put the full story together that brings us to this premier at this time, and her choices."; Tyabji says the book will be based on extensive research and more than twenty-five interviews with public figures from across the political spectrum, including the premier herself.
Judi Tyabji was born in Calcutta, India, and immigrated to Canada with her family as a young child. In 1991, at the age of twenty-six, she became the youngest BC MLA on record at the time and the first to give birth while in office. She has worked as a journalist and television talk show host and is the author of two previous books, Political Affairs (1994) and Daggers Unsheathed: The Political Assassination of Glen Clark (2002). She lives in Powell River with her husband, Gordon Wilson.
-- From Heritage House Publishing
Born in Burnaby, BC, in 1965, Christina Joan (Christy) Clark won her first election in 1996 and since then has defied odds, blazed trails, and weathered her fair share of controversy in the blood sport of BC politics. As education minister in the Liberal government of Gordon Campbell, Clark introduced changes to the K-12 system in 2001 that continue to reverberate fifteen years on. As Campbell's deputy premier, she was implicated in the scandal arising from the sale of BC Rail in 2003, then opted not to run in the 2005 election. In 2007 she began a three-year stint as a talk-show host at CKNW in Vancouver before making a startling comeback in 2011 to snatch the leadership of the BC Liberal Party, a feat matched only by her astonishing upset election victory over the NDP two years later.
"For all of her high-profile achievements, though, Clark remains an enigma to many,"; Touchie said. With the next BC election about eighteen months away, British Columbians are curious to know more about the woman behind the unflappable façade and trademark smile. "Who is this charismatic woman and where did she come from? What are her aspirations, personally and for the people of BC? How do her experiences as a single mother play out in her role as premier?";
For Judi Tyabji, a political contemporary of Clark who is no stranger to controversy herself, the book is an opportunity to bring balance to the public's perception of Clark. "This is the third time in my life where I have felt compelled to tell a political story from a perspective that is a little different,"; Tyabji said. "I'm delving back thirty years to put the full story together that brings us to this premier at this time, and her choices."; Tyabji says the book will be based on extensive research and more than twenty-five interviews with public figures from across the political spectrum, including the premier herself.
Judi Tyabji was born in Calcutta, India, and immigrated to Canada with her family as a young child. In 1991, at the age of twenty-six, she became the youngest BC MLA on record at the time and the first to give birth while in office. She has worked as a journalist and television talk show host and is the author of two previous books, Political Affairs (1994) and Daggers Unsheathed: The Political Assassination of Glen Clark (2002). She lives in Powell River with her husband, Gordon Wilson.
-- From Heritage House Publishing
Submitted on October 23, 2015 in By David.
