Beyond Reason by Margaret Trudeau (1979, Hardcover)

Beyond Reason
by Margaret Trudeau
Publisher: Paddington Press Ltd
Copyright 1979
Book Club Edition

A secret romance with a handsome statesman, twenty-nine years her senior, took a beautiful twenty-two-year-old girl from obscurity to fame.  In 1971 Margaret Trudeau became the youngest First Lady in the world.  The Trudeaus appeared the happiest of loving couples . . . but not for ever after.  Six years, three children and much speculation later, Margaret Trudeau walked out.  She had taken the unprecedented step of leaving a reigning head of state.

Now Margaret Trudeau reveals her own, unique experience of life at the very top.  The characters in her book are headline makers; the plot is public knowledge; and hers is truly the inside story.  With startling honesty, keen insight and an outrageous sense of fun, she describes the reality behind the glamorous facade; the facts behind the scandals.

Her official role led her on a continuous round of state visits, political campaigns, grand parties for world leaders and tea parties for their wives.  But the red tape and unrelenting security stultified her free spirit and by the time she mastered the fine art of protocol, she no longer wanted to live by the rules.

Margaret Trudeau has attracted more publicity and more criticism than any woman in the seventies.  The press has watched and reported her every uninhibited move.  But beyond the gossip and the headlines is the private world of a young woman struggling to cope with the pressures of public life which her conventional background and flower-child adolescence did not prepare her for.

With illuminating frankness she reports the fascinating conversations and hilarious incidents that made it all worthwhile as she encountered the famous and infamous -- from the Royal Family and Jimmy Carter to Fidel Castro and The Rolling Stones.

Throughout Margaret Trudeau has kept her perspective and, above all, her sense of humor.  Her spontaneity, quick tongue and love of romance are all part of this intimate and candid self-portrait.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages may be tanning and discolored from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Dust cover and dust cover flaps are tanning and discolored from age and show a bit of edge wear.  The book opens flat on the picture pages, but the binding is in tact.

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