From the party's beginnings in the Territories through its convulsive 1929 campaign and first victory that year under J.T.M. Anderson to its shadowy dissolution nearly 70 years later, the Saskatchewan Conservative Part struggles for relevance and survival. After their 1929 win, Conservatives waiting half a century to form their next government, when they won the 1982 election under Grant Devine--only to be "mothballed" 15 years later as the new Saskatchewan Party emerged to carry the right-wing banner in the province.

Here, in Singing the Blues, longtime party insider Dick Spencer, writing with unique insight and perspective, traces the history of one of Saskatchewan's great parties over a century of provincial politics.