This time last year, when I was doing final edits on my book about Justin Trudeau, I asked my editors at Simon & Schuster if they thought that any passages in the book stuck out as unfair. After two years of researching and writing about Trudeau, I had started to find myself becoming irritated by him, and I was afraid that had crept into the text.
The wise and talented Rosemary Shipton, who has edited many books, replied by drawing my attention to one sentence “where you verge on being a touch unkind.” I had written that perhaps Trudeau “sees politics largely as an opportunity for people to appreciate his princely magnificence.”
