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People, Politics, and Purpose investigates the roles and reputations of a wide array of political actors, offering insight into Canada's place in the world and stimulating fresh thinking about political biography.
List of contents
Introduction /
P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Greg Donaghy1 Canada's Diplomatic Autobiographers and the Burden of History, 1928-84 /
Robert Bothwell and Norman Hillmer2 That Bouncy Man: Americans and Lester B. Pearson /
Galen Roger Perras and Asa McKercher3 The Lumberjack Wars 1943-44: Canadian-American Relations at the Border and the Lives of Ordinary People /
Angelika Sauer4 Competing Biographies: How James Gladstone Became Canada's First Indigenous Senator /
P. Whitney Lackenbauer5 Prime Minister Lester Pearson: A Leadership Biography /
Stephen Azzi6 Scandal and the Decentring of Canadian Biography: The Case of Gerda Munsinger /
P.E. Bryden7 Herb Gray and the founding of the Foreign Investment Review Agency /
Jennifer Levin Bonder8 The Fine Balance Intended: Allan J. MacEachen and Canadian Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1974-84 /
Greg Donaghy9 A Journey Without Maps: John Hadwen in India 1979-83 /
Ryan TouheyConclusion: The Academic as Activist /
John MilloyContributors; Index
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Edited by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Greg Donaghy, with a Foreword by Robert Bothwell
Summary
People, Politics, and Purpose investigates the roles and reputations of a wide array of political actors, offering insight into Canada’s place in the world and stimulating fresh thinking about political biography.
