Book Launch: Flora! A Woman in a Man’s World
Thursday, October 28, 2021
4-6 pm
Online via Zoom
Co-sponsored by the Bill Graham Centre and McGill-Queen's University Press.
The exceptional story of the politician Flora Isabel MacDonald, who inspired Canadian women by breaking down gender barriers in a world of men. Flora Isabel MacDonald – politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women – was known across Canada and beyond simply as Flora. In her memoir, co-authored by award-winning journalist and author Geoffrey Stevens, she tells her personal story for the very first time.
Flora MacDonald was Canada’s first female foreign minister, and among the first women to seek the leadership of a major political party. She served in the cabinets of Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney, and was perhaps the most successful female politician of her day. The Graham Centre is proud to launch her posthumous autobiography, Flora!, with coauthor Geoff Stevens and family member Linda Grearson, along with commentators the Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, Carole MacNeil, and John English.
AUTHORS' DETAILS
Flora MacDonald (1926–2015) was a Canadian politician and humanitarian and Canada's first female minister of foreign affairs. Geoffrey Stevens is a political columnist, former managing editor of the Globe and Mail and Maclean's, and author of The Player: The Life and Times of Dalton Camp.