The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada

The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780771003264,0771003269,9780771003271, 0771003277

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• ISBN 10: 0771003277
• ISBN 13: 9780771003271
• Author: John Ibbitson

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER One of Canada’s foremost authors and journalists, offers a gripping account of the contest between John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, two prime ministers who fought each other relentlessly, but who between them created today’s Canada.     John Diefenbaker has been unfairly treated by history. Although he wrestled with personal demons, his governments launched major reforms in public health care, law reform and immigration. On his watch, First Nations on reserve obtained the right to vote and the federal government began to open up the North. He established Canada as a leader in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and took the first steps in making Canada a leader in the fight against nuclear proliferation. And Diefenbaker’s Bill of Rights laid the groundwork for the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He set in motion many of the achievements credited to his successor, Lester B. Pearson. Pearson, in turn, gave coherence to Diefenbaker’s piecemeal reforms. He also pushed Parliament to adopt a new, and now much-loved, Canadian flag against Diefenbaker’s fierce opposition. Pearson understood that if Canada were to be taken seriously as a nation, it must develop a stronger sense of self.     Pearson was superbly prepared for the role of prime minister: decades of experience at External Affairs, respected by leaders from Washington to Delhi to Beijing, the only Canadian to win the Nobel Prize for Peace. Diefenbaker was the better politician, though.

Table of contents:

1. One: The Teacher’s Son; the Preacher’s Son (1895–1918)
2. Two: Love and Purpose (1919–1928)
3. Three: Becoming Somebody (1929–1940)
4. Four: Ascent (1940–1946)
5. Five: Power and Grief (1947–1951)
6. Six: Oil and Gas (1952–1956)
7. Seven: The World Turned Upside Down (1957–1958)
8. Eight: The Chief (1958–1961)
9. Nine: Cries and Alarums (1959–1961)
10. Ten: Things Fall Apart (1961–1963)
11. Eleven: Mike (1963–1965)
12. Twelve: Swings and Roundabouts (1965–1966)
13. Thirteen: Changing of the Guard (1967–1968)
14. Fourteen: Twilight (1968–1979)

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