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This remarkable study looks at the small group of mandarins who held sway in Ottawa during the tenure of the Mackenzie King and St Laurent governments. Men such as O.D. Skelton, Clifford Clark, and Graham Towers dominated the era, with power bases in External Affairs, Finance, and the Bank of Canada. They recruited junior men such as Lester Pearson, Jack Pickersgill, Robert Bryce, Louis Rasminsky, and others, who in turn rose to hold positions of power. Granatstein argues that they created a modern governmental apparatus which could respond effectively to the most sophisticated economic and political initiatives.
The Ottawa Men explores the political, social, and family, links that bound together this influential group of men. Based on extensive research in governmental and private archives and on interviews with the mandarins themselves, their family and friends, and the politicians they served, this first-rate history is once again available to the public.
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J.L. Granatstein is the former director and CEO of the Canadian War Museum and taught Canadian history for thirty years.
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- PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0802081819
- ISBN 13 9780802081810
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages333
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