{"id":15663,"date":"2017-01-06T14:32:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T19:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=15663"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:52:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:52:54","slug":"sex-sizzle-popular-culture-winnipeg-free-press-review-paul-litts-trudeaumania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2017\/sex-sizzle-popular-culture-winnipeg-free-press-review-paul-litts-trudeaumania\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sex, sizzle and popular culture,&#8221; Winnipeg Free Press review of Paul Litt&#8217;s Trudeaumania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Sheila Jones says&nbsp;<em>Trudeaumania<\/em> by Carleton History prof, Paul Litt, is the book to buy to understand the cultural phenomenon that was the elder Trudeau. &nbsp;She writes: &#8220;Litt\u2019s <em>Trudeaumania<\/em> is about sex, sizzle and popular culture. Sex, he writes, had become the central obsession of a pop culture, which &#8216;exploited its power to titillate and sensationalize. Trudeaumania derived much of its sizzle from the sex-obsessiveness and sexism of the time.&#8217; It was the time of sexual liberation, Beatlemania and Andy Warhol.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more go to the review, &#8220;Rise to Power,&#8221; at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/arts-and-life\/entertainment\/books\/rise-to-power-403097346.html\">Winnipeg Free Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To order Professor Litt&#8217;s book, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubcpress.ca\/search\/title_book.asp?BookID=299175488\">University of British Columbia Press.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Trudeaumania.jpg\" alt=\"book cover of Trudeaumania book with four different photos of Pierre Trudeau\" class=\"wp-image-15382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Trudeaumania.jpg 333w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Trudeaumania-160x240.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Trudeaumania-240x360.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubcpress.ca\/search\/title_book.asp?BookID=299175488\"><br>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheila Jones says&nbsp;Trudeaumania by Carleton History prof, Paul Litt, is the book to buy to understand the cultural phenomenon that was the elder Trudeau. &nbsp;She writes: &#8220;Litt\u2019s Trudeaumania is about sex, sizzle and popular culture. Sex, he writes, had become the central obsession of a pop culture, which &#8216;exploited its power to titillate and sensationalize. 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