Reading Time: 4 minutes Revisiting the tragic case of KAL 007 amidst Cold War politics
Tag: Biography in Books
Four Canadian books I highly recommend
Reading Time: 5 minutes All four of these books are highly thought-provoking
Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and the pitfalls of cancel culture
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our heroes may be imperfect, but we must never resort to cancel culture
Nixon in love
Reading Time: 4 minutes A 2015 biography by Evan Thomas gives us Nixon in the round, talented and tortured, ambitious and insecure
Althea Gibson and Little Mo were tennis giants from the 1950s
Reading Time: 4 minutes But even if you’re talented and famous, life can be a bitch
Liberal disloyalty toward John Turner was truly shocking
Reading Time: 4 minutes After the Trudeau-Chretien wing of the party turned on him, an offer of help came from an unlikely source – Brian Mulroney
New biography re-examines John Turner’s legacy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Chretien’s assessment? “He looks good until you put him on the ice” Mulroney’s? “A great man and a victim of timing”
Uncovering the myths and celebrating the reality of André the Giant
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bertrand Hébert and Pat Laprade’s book, The Eighth Wonder of the World: The True Story of André the Giant, helped unlock this Giant mystery
Cary Grant was a complicated, brilliant creation
Reading Time: 4 minutes Grant may have lacked formal education and been a troubled soul, but he was nobody’s fool when it came to practising his trade and taking care of business
Margaret Thatcher and the end of apartheid
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Thatcher-Nelson Mandela relationship is a reflection of how very different people can evolve a respectful, albeit wary, understanding