{"product_id":"people-politics-and-purpose-9780774866811","title":"People Politics and Purpose","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeople, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Daniel Woolf * Literary Review of Canada *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \/ \u003cem\u003eP. Whitney Lackenbauer and Greg Donaghy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Canada’s Diplomatic Autobiographers and the Burden of History, 1928–84 \/ \u003cem\u003eRobert Bothwell and Norman Hillmer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 That Bouncy Man: Americans and Lester B. Pearson \/ \u003cem\u003eGalen Roger Perras and Asa McKercher\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 The Lumberjack Wars 1943–44: Canadian-American Relations at the Border and the Lives of Ordinary People \/ \u003cem\u003eAngelika Sauer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Competing Biographies: How James Gladstone Became Canada’s First Indigenous Senator \/ \u003cem\u003eP. Whitney Lackenbauer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Prime Minister Lester Pearson: A Leadership Biography \/ \u003cem\u003eStephen Azzi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Scandal and the Decentring of Canadian Biography: The Case of Gerda Munsinger \/ \u003cem\u003eP.E. Bryden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Herb Gray and the founding of the Foreign Investment Review Agency \/ \u003cem\u003eJennifer Levin Bonder\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 The Fine Balance Intended: Allan J. MacEachen and Canadian Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1974–84 \/ \u003cem\u003eGreg Donaghy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 A Journey Without Maps: John Hadwen in India 1979–83 \/ \u003cem\u003eRyan Touhey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Academic as Activist \/ \u003cem\u003eJohn Milloy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404949725527,"sku":"9780774866811","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774866811.jpg?v=1730488162","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/people-politics-and-purpose-9780774866811","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}