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Author: Brian Mckillop
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
Imprint: Emblem Editions
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.70cm
, Length: 22.40cm
Weight: 0.773kg
ISBN: 9780771057564
ISBN 10: 0771057563
Pages: 808
Publication Date: 07 September 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Excellent biography . . . In this evenhanded, judicious and authoritative work, McKillop does justice to the colossus. <br>-- Ken McGoogan, Globe and Mail<br> <br> McKillop's book is, like the best of Berton himself, compellingly readable. It is a biography, doubtless definitive, which readers interested in Berton, his distinguished career and in Canada's history, will want to keep on their shelves. <br>-- London Free Press <br><br> Magnificent biography. <br>-- Winnipeg Free Press <br><br> Reading it is like taking a long, but leisurely train trip through the 20th century. <br>-- Kitchener-Waterloo Record<br> <br> McKillop never loses sympathy with Berton, but he recounts the failings as well as the virtues of his subject, his occasional outbursts of petulance as well as his unfailing generosity. <br>-- National Post <br><br><br> From the Hardcover edition.
“Excellent biography . . . In this evenhanded, judicious and authoritative work, McKillop does justice to the colossus.”<br>— Ken McGoogan, Globe and Mail<br> <br>“McKillop’s book is, like the best of Berton himself, compellingly readable. It is a biography, doubtless definitive, which readers interested in Berton, his distinguished career and in Canada’s history, will want to keep on their shelves.”<br>— London Free Press <br>“Magnificent biography.”<br>— Winnipeg Free Press <br>“Reading it is like taking a long, but leisurely train trip through the 20th century.”<br>— Kitchener-Waterloo Record<br> <br>“McKillop never loses sympathy with Berton, but he recounts the failings as well as the virtues of his subject, his occasional outbursts of petulance as well as his unfailing generosity.”<br>— National Post <p> From the Hardcover edition.
Author Information
Chancellor’s Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Carleton University, Brian McKillop is one of Canada’s leading historians. He is the author of several scholarly works, as well as The Spinster and the Prophet, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Nonfiction and the Charles Taylor Prize, and which won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction, the UBC President’s Medal for Biography, and the Toronto Book Award. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2001 and lives in Ottawa.
