50 Canadians Who Changed The World - Hardcover

McGoogan, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443409308 ISBN 13: 9781443409308

Publisher: Phyllis Bruce Books, 2013

Synopsis

Amazing people who have built our present and are shaping our tomorrow

Using the successful format of How the Scots Invented Canada, Ken McGoogan takes the reader on a compelling journey throughthe lives of fifty accomplished Canadians born in the 20th century who have changed—and often continue to change—the great wide world.

He discovers an astonishing array of activists, humanitarians, visionaries, scientists and inventors, all of whom have made an impact internationally. From Tommy Douglas, Pierre Trudeau, John Kenneth Galbraith, Naomi Klein, Marshall McLuhan, Stephen Lewis and Roméo Dallaire to Glenn Gould, David Suzuki, Mike Lazaridis, Margaret Atwood, Oscar Peterson, Leonard Cohen and thirty-seven others, Ken McGoogan shows us why and how Canadians move in the wider world as influencers and agents of progressive change.

Say hello to fifty Canadians who are shaping the future.

About this title

About the Author:

Ken McGoogan has published more than a dozen books, among them Fatal Passage, How the Scots Invented Canada, Lady Franklin’s Revenge, Celtic Lightning, and Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage.

He has won the Pierre Berton Award for History, the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, and an American Christopher Award for “a work of artistic excellence that affirms the highest values of the human spirit.”  Ken has worked as a journalist at major dailies in Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary.  He sails with Adventure Canada, teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA program at University of King’s College in Halifax, and lives in Toronto with his artist-photographer wife, Sheena Fraser McGoogan.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Phyllis Bruce Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1443409308
• ISBN 13: 9781443409308
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344