Foreword / Robert Bothwell and John English
Introduction: Louis St-Laurent’s Leadership in History / Patrice Dutil
Part 1: Style
1 St-Laurent in Government: Realism and Idealism in Action / Patrice Dutil
2 Grandpapa: A Portrait of the Man and His Family / Jean Thérèse Riley
3 The Predominant Prime Minister: St-Laurent and His Cabinet / Stephen Azzi
4 Uncle Lou, Both Old and New: The Marketing of St-Laurent / Paul Litt
5 St-Laurent and the Age of Bureaucracy / Robert Bothwell
Part 2: Structure
6 Thinking Confederation: St-Laurent and the Rowell-Sirois Commission / Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson
7 The Liminality of St-Laurent’s Intergovernmental Relations Strategy / P.E. Bryden
8 St-Laurent: The Last Father of Confederation? / David MacKenzie
9 Defence, Development, and Inuit: St-Laurent’s Modern Approach to the North / P. Whitney Lackenbauer
10 "But There Is Another Source of Liberty and Vitality in Our Country": St-Laurent and Regional Development / Michel S. Beaulieu
11 St-Laurent and Modern Provincial Equality / Mary Janigan
12 St-Laurent and the Modernization of the State / Luc Juillet and Luc Bernier
13 The Cautious Liberal: St-Laurent and National Hospitalization / Gregory P. Marchildon
Part 3: Substance
14 St-Laurent, Quebec, and the French Fact: Belonging and Ambivalence / Xavier Gélinas
15 The Politics of St-Laurent on the Crown, Rituals, and Symbols / Christopher McCreery
16 St-Laurent, Judging, Justice, and the Death Penalty in the Shadow of the Cold War / Philip Girard
17 In Search of the St-Laurent Voting Coalition / Patrice Dutil
18 Winning Words: Party Platforms in the 1949, 1953, and 1957 Elections / Patrice Dutil and Peter M. Ryan
19 "The Greatest Period ... Canada Has Had": Immigration and the St-Laurent Years / Abril Liberatori
20 The Slow Evolution of Indian Policy during the St-Laurent Years / J.R. Miller
21 St-Laurent’s Gray Lecture and Canadian Citizenship in History / Adam Chapnick
22 A Voyage of Discovery: St-Laurent’s World Tour of 1954 / Greg Donaghy
Postscript: Eastern Township Thinking / The Honourable Jean Charest
Contributors; Index
