Introduction / P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Greg Donaghy
1 Canada’s Diplomatic Autobiographers and the Burden of History, 1928–84 / Robert Bothwell and Norman Hillmer
2 That Bouncy Man: Americans and Lester B. Pearson / Galen Roger Perras and Asa McKercher
3 The Lumberjack Wars 1943–44: Canadian-American Relations at the Border and the Lives of Ordinary People / Angelika Sauer
4 Competing Biographies: How James Gladstone Became Canada’s First Indigenous Senator / P. Whitney Lackenbauer
5 Prime Minister Lester Pearson: A Leadership Biography / Stephen Azzi
6 Scandal and the Decentring of Canadian Biography: The Case of Gerda Munsinger / P.E. Bryden
7 Herb Gray and the founding of the Foreign Investment Review Agency / Jennifer Levin Bonder
8 The Fine Balance Intended: Allan J. MacEachen and Canadian Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1974–84 / Greg Donaghy
9 A Journey Without Maps: John Hadwen in India 1979–83 / Ryan Touhey
Conclusion: The Academic as Activist / John Milloy
Contributors; Index
