{"id":822,"date":"2007-03-13T21:29:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T02:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=822"},"modified":"2007-03-13T21:29:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T02:29:15","slug":"os-bookshelf-right-side-up-the-fall-of-paul-martin-and-the-rise-of-stephen-harpers-new-conservativism-by-paul-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"OS Bookshelf &#8211; Right Side Up: The Fall Of Paul Martin And The Rise Of Stephen Harper&#039;s New Conservativism by Paul Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Wells&#8217; first book was an especially good read for someone like me who was a political junkie at my worst during the past two elections.<\/p>\n<p>This book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRight-Side-Up-Stephen-Conservatism%2Fdp%2F0771089198%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1173839244%26sr%3D1-2&#038;tag=officiallyscr-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper&#8217;s New Conservativism<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=officiallyscr-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> was a good read for filling in all the little details of the 18 months between the 2004 and 2006 elections.  It outlines much of the activity within the Liberal Party and within Paul Martin&#8217;s election war room.<\/p>\n<p>The writing style Paul Wells&#8217; displays is very appealing in that it flows easily for political and non political alike.  His years writing for newspapers and magazines clearly shows through.<\/p>\n<p>I would highly recommend this read for someone who may not have been up on what was going on in the last election or someone new to politics who would like to know how we got where we are today after the reign of Chretien.<\/p>\n<p>7 out of 10 screws.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Wells&#8217; first book was an especially good read for someone like me who was a political junkie at my worst during the past two elections. This book, Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper&#8217;s New Conservativism was a good read for filling in all the little details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-os-bookshelf","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}