ting Reading “KIM” Right. Frank Davey. Talonbooks, $14.95 T’S OVER. Avant-garde Vancouver iter Frank Davey got the jump on the field of up to half a dozen hacks, flaks and ghostwriters said to be melting down the microprocessors (whipped on by frenzied sub-editors) to get books on Canada’s first Ms. Prime Minister into print before, like unlamented Liberal tunk john Turner, she becomes “the former PM.” Warse news for the bailer-room scribblers is that Davey’s book isn’t some hastily knocked off bio cobbled from padded press clip- “pings, which more than one of theirs is tikely to be. Instead, Reacing “KIM” Right sets a unique new benchmark standard for political biography, a genre usually divided between servile tributes and sensational ~character-assassination attempts. >. Davey offers no tasty gossip . | about her two failed marriages, no “who's zooming who’’ accounts “of her rapid rise to national pro- minence. He is not interested in the’ “real’’ Kim Campbell, nor, as he ~ points out in his introduction, should we be: ‘Voters never "vote for flesh-and-blood people, any more than lovers embrace them: it is words and images we vote for and embrace, words and im- “ages that move us because some- | “ how they connect us with what we ‘and our culture have lived with, learned, helped build, come to . fone believe i in, detest or yearn ‘for Davey is interested i in “Kim Campbell, ” the public figure . defined. by her own utterances and ‘actions’ on the public political he stage.” Call it “quasi-deconstruc- a, tionist,””, call it “discourse analy- sis," as Davey does — it makes for ‘an exhilarating and enlightening read; an intellectually scintillating ‘* eritique of the words and images - that make up “Kim Campbell,” : as “Anne of Green Gables,” as joint-puffing student posed with _, symbolic folky guitar, as oppor- tunist B.C. Socred, as sexy bare- shouldered federal justice minister, as absentee defence minister ‘whose elite ‘peace keepers” have been accused of being closet” .. Nazis; and.as sexist.victim of the unofficial “men’s club” of the oy Tory back rooms. “There are Booly, moments. John Moore BOOK REVIEW Davey's extended white male apologist close textual analysis of the lyrics of Shake, Rattle and Roll, a seminal ‘50s rock tune dragged in apparently because it’s “Kim's generation,” so perfectly: eam- bodies all that is asinine about the current craze for historical revi- sionism that you’d almost suspect he has his tongue wedged firmly in cheek, ‘Rock and roll is a treacherous bog for amateur and professional sociologists alike; the key to un- _ derstanding it lies in old vault tapes of American Bandstand s audience record reviews: “Uh, well, | didn’t get the lyrics, uh, but, ‘like, it's gota great beat and you can dance to it, y'know?’ -(Besides, my parents will hate it.) It was only rock ‘n roll, Frank, and we liked it. Davey’s observations on the at- ” tempt to generate “‘Camp- bellmania’” (a mysterious spasm ° affecting some Tories and termi- nally bored members of the fifth estate), and its context within the (male) Trudeau myth, are cogent and penetrating. Unlike most political pundits, ’ who have the attention span of an amphetamine-wired ferret, Davey grasps the fundamental truth that the Conservatives are the party that gets to play at government and carry the chamber-pot when the Liberals find it inconvenient to be on the hotseat. : Davey has sussed that there are powers-that-be in this country - whom Pierre Trudeau can still ring up at 4 a.m. who wouldn't give Brian Mulroney the time of day during office hours, as Trudeau proved when he rose from the living to torpedo almost casually - Mulroney's attempts to imper- sonate a Canadian statesman in- ’ stead of a slick enforcer for the continental Manifest Destiny ambi- ~ tions of his Republican Party ~ masters. 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