Author: Collins, Stephen
Edition: 1st
Number Of Pages: 240
Release Date: 29-02-1992
Details: Charles J. Haughey, self-made man, one of the longest-serving leaders of the most powerful party in Ireland, President of the EC during a time of great world change. You could love him or hate him, but you could never be indifferent. The Haughey File charts the extraordinary rise and demise of a political genius. His career was marked by intrigue, scandal, and political manoeuvring on a Machiavellian scale. Enormous self-belief and charisma rescued him from disaster time and again. It s all here, the early success, the good legislation, the Arms Trial, the financial mismanagement, the Tallaght Strategy and reduction of the National Debt, the U-turn on coalition, the unnecessary 1989 election, the loss of the presidency. Resignations and sackings led to the establishment of the Progressive Democrats. Controversies involving his personal friends rocked the nation, Goodman, Greencore, Telecom. Then in 1992 the decade-old phone-tapping controversy would come back to haunt him...
EAN: 9780862782986
Languages: English
Binding: Paperback
Item Condition: UsedVeryGood