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Lester B. Pearson

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ISBN-10: 0670067385

ISBN-13: 9780670067381

Edition: 2008

Authors: Andrew Cohen, Saul Ralston

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In his 2 terms as prime minister, from 1963-1968, Lester B. Pearson oversaw the revamping of Canada through the introduction of Medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, the Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, the Auto Pact, and the new Maple Leaf flag. Pearson came to power after an impressive career as a diplomat, where he played a vital role in the creation of NATO and the United Nations, later serving as president of its General Assembly. He put Canada on the world stage when he won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his handling of the Suez Crisis, during which he brokered the formation of a UN peacekeeping force. Author Andrew Cohen, whose books have focused on Canada's place in the…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/22/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

ANDREW COHEN is a professor of journalism at Carleton University's School of Journalism and Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. He has written for the Ottawa Citizen, United Press International, Time, the Financial Post, Saturday Night and the Globe and Mail, and has written and co-edited six books, among them The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are, and While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World, which was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and Extraordinary Canadians: Lester B. Pearson. At the Globe and Mail, he was a member of the Editorial Board and a columnist and foreign correspondent in…