Praise for Citizen of the World

“[A] magisterial biography drawing on many previously unpublished letters and diaries.”—

—National Post

“Citizen of the World is more than just another volume on an already overcrowded shelf. It offers the most intimate look at the most dominant of Canadian political figures in modern times.”

—The Gazette (Montreal)

“The most illuminating Trudeau portrait…. John English was given full access to the gold mine—all of Mr. Trudeau’s diaries, letters, and papers. It is from that kind of entree that truths emerge. The Trudeau story is more wondrous than imagined.”

—The Globe and Mail

“English’s work is very readable, balanced in judgment and of course deeply informed…. Trudeau’s energy, passion, ambition, wit, and intellectuality leap off the page, leaving this reader once again with a sense of the extraordinary nature of his life and character.”

—Winnipeg Free Press

“John English has written a brilliant biography of the early life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau … Citizen of the World will be as commanding a book as Trudeau was himself.”

—Dafoe Book Prize jury citation

“Citizen of the World … is one of the most fascinating and revealing books I have encountered in years…. Sensitively, thoughtfully, and absorbingly written.”

—The Owen Sound Sun Times

“The most complete version yet of Trudeau’s life, and one of the most revealing biographies of any Canadian prime minister…. [T]he definitive Trudeau biography.”

—The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo)

“Brilliant, so perceptive about Trudeau, so well informed on the context, so beautifully written.”

—Ramsay Cook, former General Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography