Includes chronology, 1963-2001. Includes index.

The setting -- The FLQ defined -- FLQ membership -- The FLQ manifesto -- Terrorists for hostages -- The petition of 14 October 1970 -- Calling in the Army -- Apprehended insurrection -- The War Measures Act and the alternatives -- The War Measures Act : what went right -- The War Measures Act : what went wrong -- The reaction to the War Measures Act -- Provisional government -- Voices of calm, voices of panic -- The murder of Pierre Laporte -- The end of the violence -- Convening the National Assembly? -- Was the Crisis proncipally a Quebec matter? -- Federalism at work - The Duchaine Report.