A new book by Peter C. Newman about Brian Mulroney, went on sale today: The Secret Mulroney Tapes. It is based on years of interviews conducted by Mr. Newman and media reports have picked some rather unflattering quotes from the book as examples of its content.

Members of the Edmonton Public Library can subscribe to a special RSS feed I whipped up to find out when the book becomes available. This feed will allow you to find out as soon as they have added it to their catalogue and you can place an hold even before it arrives! The feed is generated every two hours from a Z39.50 search of the EPL catalogue and converted to RSS (for those who care about the details).

For those, not familiar with recent world leaders, Mulroney was the Prime Minister of Canada for a long time. Americans might know him for clowning around and singing “When Irish Eyes are Smiling” with Ronald Reagan. Germans might recognize him as a friend of the famous criminal Karlheinz Schreiber.

Somewhat interesting are the headlines from Canada’s major media on the subject:

• The National Post: “Mulroney tell-all book slams Trudeau“
• The Globe and Mail: “Years later, ‘he bugs us still’“
• Macleans: “Mulroney “devastated” and “betrayed” by Newman’s tell-all book“
• CBC (staff locked-out): “Mulroney says he’s tops, Trudeau’s not“

Conclusions regarding media bias are left as an exercise for the reader.

[...] Well, my program worked perfectly. I managed to get in the hold queue in position 50 (realize, that staff get to put in holds before patrons so you can never get in position #1. I’ve never managed to be any higher than position 8 at my public library for new items). [...]