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For six months in 1967, from late April until the end of October, Canada and its world’s fair, Expo 67, became the focus of national and international attention in a way the country and its people had rarely experienced. Expo 67 crystallized the buoyant mood and newfound sense of confidence many felt during Canada’s centennial. It becomes clearer, though, as its forty-fifth anniversary approaches in spring 2012, that Expo was something more than just a great world’s fair. For many Canadians, it became a touchstone, a popular event that penetrated the collective psyche.
The Best Place to Be takes a look at Expo and at the social and political contexts in which it occurred. It is above all a story of people: the young men and women who worked at Expo, the visitors, and the cameo appearances from the titled and celebrated, such as Elizabeth II, President Lyndon Johnson, President Charles de Gaulle (whose visit to Expo and Montreal became infamous), U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Princess Grace of Monaco, Princess Margaret, Marshall McLuhan, Sidney Poitier, Laurence Olivier, Cary Grant, Twiggy, and Pierre Trudeau.
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John Lownsbrough is an award-winning journalist whose work over the years has appeared in Toronto Life, Saturday Night, Maclean’s, Report on Business Magazine, Chatelaine, The Globe and Mail , and the Literary Review of Canada . His social history The Privileged Few: The Grange and its People in Nineteenth Century Toronto was nominated for the City of Toronto Book Award .
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“Evocative.... [The Best Place to Be] ... is a bit of time travel with a nostalgic tint.” - The Globe and Mail
“A detailed backstory on how Expo came to be and how it was run, affording a further appreciation of this complex event.... A worthy addition to the ... Expo 67 canon.” - National Post
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- PublisherAllen Lane
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0670068624
- ISBN 13 9780670068623
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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