Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

INTRODUCTION: We’d Rather Be Clark Kent

PART 1: The Arts

Margaret Atwood: The Corrugated Madonna

The Tempestuous Vision of Irving Layton

A Fond Farewell to Robertson Davies

The “Fillum” Moguls Who Made Me

Terry Fox on the Run

Jack McClelland: The Authors’ Publisher

Hugh MacLennan: Charting Canada’s Psyche

Remembering Pierre Berton, the Big Foot of CanLit

June Callwood: A Passion for Compassion

Jack Poole: The Shy Birth Father of the Vancouver Olympics

Marshall McLuhan: Calling Planet Earth

Ralph Allen: The Man from Oxbow

Homage to Christina McCall

PART 2: Politics

Michael Ignatieff: The Count Comes Home

Pierre Trudeau: Phantom of the Canadian Opera

Lester Pearson: A Good Man in a Wicked Time

Walter Gordon: The Troubled Canadian

Frank Underhill: A Liberal for All Seasons

Judy LaMarsh: The Gutsy Charmer with Class

PART 3: Business

Peter Munk: The Man for All Seasons

For the Love of Andy (Sarlos): Of Casinos and Markets

“Young Ken “ Thomson: The World’s Shyest Multi-Billionaire

David Thomson: Fortune’s Child

The Immaculate Passions of Nelson Davis

Paul Desmarais: King of the Establishment

The Golden Couple: Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman

Jimmy Pattison: Canada’s Über-Entrepreneur

Ted Rogers: The Tycoon Who Never Rested

Arthur Child: Calgary’s Renaissance Man

Sir Christopher Ondaatje: The Knight Who Explored Africa

Seymour Schulich: Champion Philanthropist

Peter Bronfman: The Bronfman Who Hated Money

The New Wave: Navjeet Dhillon Goes Gold

PART 4: Okay, They’re Not Canadian, but They’re Still My Heroes

Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm

Diana: The Luminous Life That Defined an Era

Václav Havel: Politics of the Improbable

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