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There's a good deal about the fundamentals of the business: booze and sex. - Roughneck magazine Jan 2012 Fotheringham did not fall into the category of those who wrote history but some of his stuff certainly influenced history. An example that comes to mind was his wickedly cruel, colorful but accurate saga of Joe Clark's botched world tour shortly after he won the Conservative Party leadership in 1976. The Foth's description of lost underwear, walking into bayonets and inane conversation with peasants created a devastating first impression, picked up by the rest of the media that Clark never fully recovered from. -- Literary Review of Canada, Dec 2011 Fotheringham is a storyteller, a dancer, a lover of women. He lunches well, dines better, and remembers every detail. You could toss 'Who's Who' off the CN Tower, and not drop as many names as he does in this book... An agreeable way to spend a few hours. -- Maclean's magazine, Nov 7, 2011 There's a good deal about the fundamentals of the business: booze and sex. -- Shane McCune -- The Globe and Mail, Nov 20, 2011 During his quarter-century as Maclean's back-page columnist, Dr. Foth, now 79, was indisputably the country's most popular political columnist - a deft phrase-turner and pomposity-skewer... -- Toronto Star, Oct 23, 2011

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Allan Fotheringham has been a journalist and columnist for nearly fifty years, first with the Vancouver Sun, for nearly three decades with Maclean's, and more recently with the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Zoomer. He has published eight previous books, including Fotheringham's Fictionary of Facts & Follies and Malice in Blunderland. Dr. Foth lives in Toronto.

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