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Renegade in Power

The Diefenbaker Years

by (author) Peter C. Newman

introduction by Denis Smith

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1973
Category
General
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    ISBN
    9780773595378
    Publish Date
    Jan 1973

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Peter C. Newman has been writing about Canadian history and politics for half a century. His previous works include the bestselling history of the Hudson Bay Company, Company of Adventurers, as well as books on prime ministers John Diefenbaker, Lester B. Pearson, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and Brian Mulroney. A former editor-in-chief of the Toronto Star and Maclean’s, Newman has won a half dozen of the country’s most illustrious literary awards, including the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize for his memoir, Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion, and Power. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada. Newman lives in Belleville, Ontario.

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DENIS SMITH has had a distinguished career as a professor of Canadian politics, university administrator, and author. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies from 1966 to 1975 and editor of the Canadian Forum from 1975 to 1979. His books include a biography of Liberal cabinet minister Walter Gordon, Gentle Patriot and of Conservative prime minister John Diefenbaker in Rogue Tory, both of which won the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography.Canadian Author

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