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Just Garret: Tales From the Political Front Line
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InJust Garret, Dr. FitzGerald writes frankly about his upbringing, his parents, his involvement in the Independence movement, their disagreements about the Treaty, his early years in school and college and his gradual entry into politics. He reflects honestly on his time as minister for Foreign Affairs, and later on his tenure as Taoiseach.The book includes new material and opinion on key figures such as Charles Haughey, Margaret Thatcher and John Major, as well as his role in the emerging peace in Northern Ireland, Ireland's role in the EU and Garret's advocacy in the referendas on the European Union also feature. His memoir gently lifts the layers of his public life back to reveal a much-cherished family life and the huge influence his wife Joan had on his career, rendering a portrait of an informal, humane and witty person who was an ever compelling voice in Irish public affairs right up until his passing in May, 2011.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For a good chunk of my teenage years Garret FitzGerald was a man who argued statistics on the TV. Teased for his inability to coordinate and that he had mismatched shoes, he resembled more an absent-minded professor than the country's leader. This is his recollections of his life and what made him the person he was. I took it out of the library when he died and read it in snippets over the last while, he was an interesting man, a believer in facts who was a marked contrast to the man who was in many ways his dark shadow, Charles Haughey.Garret Fitzgerald was a man who faced a lot of difficult issues, who believed in the power of statistics and who was often seen pushing his wife in her wheelchair so she could share in events.Still I did want to do a bit of research about some of the unsaid issues, it's probably too soon to look harder at some of it but I do wonder what he was like to work with behind the bumbling professor exterior.