A political biography extraordinaire, Elusive Destiny reveals the inner workings of Liberal Party politics in their heyday as charted through the meteoric rise and fall of John Napier Turner. Drawing on extensive interviews, including several with John Turner himself, this engrossing work highlights Turner’s time as Minister of Justice and Finance, exposing his deep clashes with Trudeau over language rights, social spending, and Quebec. Perhaps the book’s greatest achievement is that it answers one of the prevailing mysteries of Canadian politics: how did the Liberal Party’s star apprentice of the 1970s fail to resonate with Canadians in the 1980’s and go down to defeat.