It should appeal to students of Canadian history and politics as well those seeking a crash course on past Canadian political leadership under one book cover.Ĭitizen of the world: the life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, volume one, 1919-1968 / John English, 2006. This book affords access to collected biographies on 15 of Canada’s Prime Ministers written by eminent historians. Pick a PM!Ĭanada's prime ministers, Macdonald to Trudeau: portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Ramsay Cook and Réal Bélanger (eds.), 2007. Here is a selective list of prime ministerial titles worth considering. Memoirs are similar to autobiographies, but tend to focus on one aspect of a person's life in one's own words rather than telling the entire story.īiographies and memoirs on Canadian political leaders might appeal to the non-fiction reader interested in Canadian political history, especially those dealing with prime ministers (both former and present). Collected biographies offer information about different people or a group of people with something in common. Rich or poor, famous, infamous or not so famous, biographies and autobiographies offer the reader a connected, non-fiction narrative on a person's life. Autobiographies let us explore a person's life through their own words. Biographies afford us the opportunity to learn of someone's life told by another person. Truth can be stranger than fiction (with apologies to Lord Byron).
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