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Book SynopsisPeople, 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.
Trade Review"Readers of People, Politics, and Purpose will likely be academics — the book surely won’t make any holiday bestsellers list — but it is an entertaining and informative collection of portraits in Canadian leadership. In this way, it would be of interest to even non-specialists."
-- Daniel Woolf * Literary Review of Canada *
Table of ContentsIntroduction / P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Greg Donaghy
1 Canada’s Diplomatic Autobiographers and the Burden of History, 1928–84 / Robert Bothwell and Norman Hillmer
2 That Bouncy Man: Americans and Lester B. Pearson / Galen Roger Perras and Asa McKercher
3 The Lumberjack Wars 1943–44: Canadian-American Relations at the Border and the Lives of Ordinary People / Angelika Sauer
4 Competing Biographies: How James Gladstone Became Canada’s First Indigenous Senator / P. Whitney Lackenbauer
5 Prime Minister Lester Pearson: A Leadership Biography / Stephen Azzi
6 Scandal and the Decentring of Canadian Biography: The Case of Gerda Munsinger / P.E. Bryden
7 Herb Gray and the founding of the Foreign Investment Review Agency / Jennifer Levin Bonder
8 The Fine Balance Intended: Allan J. MacEachen and Canadian Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1974–84 / Greg Donaghy
9 A Journey Without Maps: John Hadwen in India 1979–83 / Ryan Touhey
Conclusion: The Academic as Activist / John Milloy
Contributors; Index
