Table of Contents

• Introduction
• I THE EARLY YEARS 17
• • 1 Billy
  • 2 Helen
  • 3 Kathleen
  • 4 Education
• II PREMIER OF ONTARIO
• • 5 Leader
  • 6 Transition
  • 7 Spadina
  • 8 Election
  • 9 Majority (I)
  • 10 Trouble
  • 11 Minority (I)
  • 12 Minority (II)
  • 13 French
  • 14 Clark
  • 15 Majority (II)
  • 16 Suncor
  • 17 Constitution
  • 18 Mulroney
  • 19 Catholics
  • 20 Resignation
  • 21 Successor
• III LIFE AFTER POLITICS
• • 22 Post-Politics
  • 23 Family
  • 24 Legacy
• Appendix 1: Cabinets
• Appendix 2: Stopping Spadina (1971)
• Appendix 3: No to Separate School Funding (1971)
• Appendix 4: Election Call (1971)
• Appendix 5: Constitutional Conference (1981)
• Appendix 6: Full Funding for Separate Schools (1984)
• Appendix 7: Retirement Press Conference (1984)
• Appendix 8: Boards of Directors
• Appendix 9: Longest-Serving Canadian Premiers by Tenure
• Appendix 10: Ontario Premiers by Tenure
• Bibliography
• Dr. Roberto Grosso Bursary
• Acknowledgements
• Index

About the Author

Steve Paikin is anchor of The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO’s flagship current affairs program since 2006. He has written four previous books on politics, including Paikin and the Premiers. Paikin has spent 30 years in journalism, almost 25 of them at Ontario’s provincial broadcaster. He lives in Toronto.

Reviews

The book’s examination of Davis’s lengthy political run is, in many ways, a thing of beauty.
*Literary Review of Canada*

A must read not just for political junkies but for anyone who cares about the people and politics that built this province — written in a readable, totally absorbing way.
*Toronto Sun*

Steve Paikin is an exception, just as his book on former Ontario premier Bill Davis is exceptional.
*Troy Media*

An affectionate recounting of the era.
*Toronto Star*