Joseph Michael Cammarata was born in New York City in July of 1977. Son of Joseph and Linda Cammarata, he was raised with his siblings Kimberly and Michael in a home that instilled strong family and ethical values. Joseph always dreamed of being a New York City Firefighter alongside his brother Michael, but when the New York City Police Department called him to duty first, he took the job. He wanted to be serve his community in whatever way possible.

After the events of 9-11, and after Michaels untimely death as a rookie firefighter, Joseph joined the New York City Fire department, despite resistance from his family. He retired from the department in 2006. Joseph later expanded his families real estate development firm. While Vice President of Operations, Joseph returned to his studies in 2007 at St John's University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice. Joseph is also a devoted husband to Stephanie, and a loving father of Francesca Lynn. He is aggressively pursuing a Law degree, with hopes of utilizing it to serve the public once again.

Searching For Justice

Born into a middle-class Jewish family in 1920s Vienna, Fred Kaufman escaped to England on the eve of the Second World War. In 1940, he was interned as an “enemy alien” and sent to Canada. Released in 1942, Kaufman stayed in Canada where he went on to university and law school in Montreal.

In 1960, he secured the release of young Pierre Elliott Trudeau from prison, and in 1973, Trudeau returned the favour by personally informing Kaufman of his appointment to the Quebec Court of Appeal, where he served for eighteen years.

Since his retirement in 1991, Kaufman has led numerous commissions and inquiries, most notably the investigation into the wrongful conviction of Guy-Paul Morin and the two-year reassessment of the Steven Truscott case.

"Kaufman`s ability to place his life story in the context of broader historical trends - the persecution of Jews in the 1940s, French-English tensions in the 1960s and `70s Quebec, and the social underpinnings of some of the most famous cases in Canadian legal history - is a welcome change from all-about-me tone that characterizes many memoirs. This is a great story told by a great story teller" - Quill & Quire (starred review)

“In his absorbing and stirring memoir, Kaufman vividly and with much humour and self-effacement, describes his climb from a scorned enemy alien to his perch today as one of the country’s most admired jurists.” —Canadian Historical Review

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Politics was always Brian Mulroney’s real love. As an undergraduate in Nova Scotia he amazed his friends by getting Prime Minister Diefenbaker on the phone, and he rose fast in the Tory ranks in Quebec as a young Montreal lawyer. He tried for the leadership of the party in 1976, losing to Joe Clark, then returned to win a rematch in 1983. The next year, he ran the most successful election campaign in Canadian history, winning 211 seats, and taking office in September 1984.

His first term in office was a stormy one, marked by the launch of the Meech Lake Accord and the Free Trade Agreement with the United States. In 1988, however, he was re-elected after a rollercoaster campaign, and his second term in office was just as controversial, featuring the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords — still a source of bitter regret for him, as opportunities missed.

This book falls into two main sections: first, his rise out of a working-class family in Baie-Comeau. Second, his immersion into the world of Ottawa politics, in opposition and then in power.

The years in power are dealt with in fascinating detail, and we receive his candid accounts of backstage dealings with Trudeau, Clark, and other Canadian leaders and on the international scene with Reagan, Thatcher, Mitterrand, Kohl, Gorbachev, Mandela, Clinton, and many more. This big book has a huge cast of major players.

Brian Mulroney is determined to make this the best prime minister’s memoirs this country has ever seen, and a full-time researcher has been helping him for three years. This account of his career is colourful and forthright, and a number of opponents will be sorry that they caught his attention.

The manuscript is full of personal touches and reflects the fact that he wrote it by hand, reading it aloud for rhythm and impact. Studded with entries from his private journal, this book — by a son, brother, husband, and father — is deeply personal, and includes some surprisingly frank admissions.

The book establishes the scale of his achievements, and reveals him as a man of great charm. Memoirs will allow that little-known Brian Mulroney to engage directly with the reader. This book is full of surprises, as we fall under the spell of a great storyteller

Kim Campbell forged her own way in the rough-and-tumble world of Canadian politics, from her first election—to the Vancouver School Board—to her historic rise to Prime Minister of Canada. How did this hardworking, intensely shy woman become a political phenomenon who broke ground for a generation of women? In this candid, revealing memoir, Kim Campbell looks back on an exciting and often improbable career, at the challenges she met, the issues she tackled—from the David Milgaard case, to the controversy over sexual orientation in the military, to Canada’s role in the Gulf War—and the politicians who were her friends, her enemies, and sometimes both.