Peter Gzowski: A Biography - Hardcover

Fleming, R.B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1554887208 ISBN 13: 9781554887200

Publisher: Dundurn Press, 2010

Synopsis

Born in 1934, Peter Gzowski covered most of the last half of the century as a journalist and interviewer. This biography, the most comprehensive and definitive yet published, is also a portrait of Canada during those decades, beginning with Gzowski’s days at the University of Toronto’s The Varsity in the mid 1950s, through his years as the youngest-ever managing editor of Maclean’s in the 1960s and his tremendous success on CBC’s Morningside in the 1980s and 1990s, and ending with his stint as a Globe and Mail columnist at the dawn of the 21st century and his death in January 2002.

Gzowski saw eight Canadian Prime Ministers in office, most of whom he interviewed, and witnessed everything from the Quiet Revolution in Qubec to the growth of economic nationalism in Canada’s West. From the rise of state medicine to the decline of the patriarchy, Peter was there to comment, to resist, and to participate. Here was a man who was proud to call himself Canadian and who made millions of other Canadians realize that Canada was, in what he claimed was a Canadian expression, not a bad place to live.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

This first definitive biography of Peter Gzowski probes his childhood and follows him through his career, beginning with his days at the University of Toronto’s The Varsity through to his tremendous success on CBC Radio’s Morningside and his time at the Globe and Mail.

About the Author:

Rae Fleming's previous biographical investigations include a biography of Sir William Mackenzie, an edited collection of essays on biography, and a recent commissioned biography, not yet published. He has also written several articles, most of them biographical in one way or another, for The Beaver magazine. Rae lives in Argyle, Ontario.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1554887208
• ISBN 13: 9781554887200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496