Article: Paul Martin's failure of imagination.(Canada)

One year on, do we have a prime-minister yet?

When I decided to write a book on Paul Martin I wasn't aiming at a biography--just a political profile so that Canadians would know something about their apparent next prime minister. But I guess I expected that along the way I would discover what made him tick. Collecting all the stuff of his careers--quotes, decisions, opinions of others, the people he chose to associate with--and then work backwards to discover his essence: that which drove him to relentlessly pursue Canada's top job.

But I never found it.

I concluded that it wasn't there to find and instead tried to find out why. The answer ...

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