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• Short-listed for Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Writers' Trust of Canada 2025 (Canada)

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"""No scholar has come close to delving this deeply into the spoken words of Canada's post-Second World War heads of government. This manuscript makes a crucial, original contribution to the Canadian scholarly canon.""-- ""Adam Chapnick, professor, Defence Studies, Canadian Forces College"" ""This is an excellent and very valuable analysis of prime ministerial rhetoric since 1945.""-- ""Barbara J. Messamore, professor, History, University of the Fraser Valley"""

""Raymond B. Blake presents a new way to understand the role of Canada’s leaders in shaping how Canadians think of themselves, creating a shared sense of belonging, and presenting the country to the global community."" -- Tim Cook * Canada's History *

""No scholar has come close to delving this deeply into the spoken words of Canada's post-Second World War heads of government. This manuscript makes a crucial, original contribution to the Canadian scholarly canon.""-- ""Adam Chapnick, professor, Defence Studies, Canadian Forces College"" ""This is an excellent and very valuable analysis of prime ministerial rhetoric since 1945.""-- ""Barbara J. Messamore, professor, History, University of the Fraser Valley""

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Raymond B. Blake is a professor of history at the University of Regina and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has held visiting professorships at Philipps-Universität Marburg and University College Dublin, where he has twice held the Craig Dobbin Chair in Canadian Studies. He was formerly the director of the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy and the director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. He has written and edited more than twenty books, most recently Where Once They Stood: Newfoundland’s Rocky Road towards Confederation (with Melvin Baker), which won several awards, including the Pierre Savard Award from the International Council for Canadian Studies.

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