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The duel : Diefenbaker, Pearson and the making of modern Canada / by Ibbitson, John,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."One of Canada's foremost authors and journalists offers a gripping account of the contest between John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, two prime ministers who fought each other relentlessly, but who between them created today's Canada. John Diefenbaker has been unfairly treated by history. Although he wrestled with personal demons, his governments launched major reforms in public health care, law reform and immigration. On his watch, First Nations on reserve obtained the right to vote and the federal government began to open up the North. He established Canada as a leader in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and took the first steps in making Canada a leader in the fight against nuclear proliferation. And Diefenbaker's Bill of Rights laid the groundwork for the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He set in motion many of the achievements credited to his successor, Lester B. Pearson. Pearson, in turn, gave coherence to Diefenbaker's piecemeal reforms. He also pushed Parliament to adopt a new, and now much-loved, Canadian flag against Diefenbaker's fierce opposition. Pearson understood that if Canada were to be taken seriously as a nation, it must develop a stronger sense of self. Pearson was superbly prepared for the role of prime minister: decades of experience at External Affairs, respected by leaders from Washington to Delhi to Beijing, the only Canadian to win the Nobel Prize for Peace. Diefenbaker was the better politician, though. If Pearson walked with ease in the halls of power, Diefenbaker connected with the farmers and small-town merchants and others left outside the inner circles. Diefenbaker was one of the great orators of Canadian political life; Pearson spoke with a slight lisp. Diefenbaker was the first to get his name in the papers, as a crusading attorney: Diefenbaker for the Defence, champion of the little man. But he struggled as a politician, losing five elections before making it into the House of Commons, and becoming as estranged from the party elites as he was from the Liberals, until his ascension to the Progressive Conservative leadership in 1956 through a freakish political accident. As a young university professor, Pearson caught the attention of the powerful men who were shaping Canada's first true department of foreign affairs, rising to prominence as the helpful fixer, the man both sides trusted, the embodiment of a new country that had earned its place through war in the counsels of the great powers: ambassador, undersecretary, minister, peacemaker. Everyone knew he was destined to be prime minister. But in 1957, destiny took a detour. Then they faced each other, Diefenbaker v Pearson, across the House of Commons, leaders of their parties, each determined to wrest and hold power, in a decade-long contest that would shake and shape the country. Here is a tale of two men, children of Victoria, who led Canada into the atomic age: each the product of his past, each more like the other than either would ever admit, fighting each other relentlessly while together forging the Canada we live in today. To understand our times, we must first understand theirs"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Diefenbaker, John G., 1895-1979.; Pearson, Lester B.; Prime ministers;
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Cold fire : Kennedy's northern front / by Boyko, John,1957-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Sheds a new light on the presidency of John F. Kennedy, and his critical battles with the leaders of Canada.LSC
Subjects: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.; Diefenbaker, John G., 1895-1979.; Pearson, Lester B., 1897-1972.; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.;
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The Wizard of Oz [videorecording (DVD)] / by Baum, L. Frank(Lyman Frank),1856-1919.Wizard of Oz.Videorecording.; Bolger, Ray.; Fleming, Victor,1833-1949.; Garland, Judy.; Haley, Jack,1899-1979.; Lahr, Bert,1895-1967.; Lansbury, Angela,1925-; Morgan, Frank,1890-1949.; Turner Entertainment Co.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Adaptation, Noel Langley ; Photography, Harold Rosson ; film editor, Blanche Sewell ; art director, Cedric Gibbons ; music, Harold Arlen.Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton and the Munchkins.Judy Garland stars as Dorothy in search of the Wizard of Oz who can help her return to Kansas.Canadian Home Video rating: G.DVD ; Dolby digital ; full screen (1.33:1) presentation.
Subjects: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919.; Children's films.; Cowardly Lion (Fictitious character); Feature films.; Gale, Dorothy (Fictitious character); Musical films.; Oz (Imaginary place); Scarecrow (Fictitious character : Baum); Tin Woodman (Fictitious character); Video recordings for children.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Wizard of Oz (Fictitious character);
© c2009., Turner Entertainment Co. : Distributed by Warner Home Video,
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Dumbo [videorecording] / by Baskett, James,1904-1948.; Bing, Herman,1889-1947.; Bletcher, Billy,1894-1979.; Brophy, Edward,1895-1960.; Churchill, Frank,1901-1942.; Holloway, Sterling.; Pearl, Harold.; Sharpsteen, Ben.; Wallace, Oliver,1887-1963.; Washington, Ned,1901-1976.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm); RKO Radio Pictures.; Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm); Walt Disney Productions.;
Music, Oliver Wallace, Frank Churchill ; lyrics, Ned Washington.Voices: Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, James Baskett, Herman Bing, Billy Bletcher.The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo, who happens to be a veteran of the circus, but the newborn is soon ridiculed because of his truly gigantic ears and is dubbed "Dumbo". Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts. It is up to Dumbo's only true friend, Timothy Q. Mouse, to assist Dumbo to achieve his full potential.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; NTSC ; 5.1 Disney Enhanced Home Theater mix (DEHT) ; full screen presentation.
Subjects: Animated films.; Children's films.; Circus animals; Circus; Elephants; Feature films.; Friendship; Video recordings for children.;
© c2011., Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment,
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All quiet on the western front [videorecording] / by Abbott, George,1887-1995.; Alexander, Ben,1911-1969.; Alexander, Richard,1902-1989.; Anderson, Maxwell,1888-1959.; Andrews, Del,d. 1942.; Ayres, Lew,1908-1996.; Bakewell, William,1908-; Davis, Owen,1907-1949.; Gleason, Russell,1908-1945.; Goodwin, Harold,1902-1987.; Kolk, Scott.; Laemmle, Carl,1908-1979.; Lucy, Arnold,1865-1945.; Milestone, Lewis,1895-1980.; Remarque, Erich Maria,1898-1970.Im Westen nichts Neues.Videorecording.; Rogers, Walter Browne,1906-1943.; Summerville, Slim,1892-1946.; Wolheim, Louis.; Wray, John,1887-1940.; Universal Studios Home Video (Firm); Universal-International (Firm);
Cinematographer, Arthur Edeson ; film editor, Edgar Adams.Louis Wolheim, Lewis Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander, Scott Kolk, Owen Davis, Jr., Walter Browne Rogers, William Bakewell, Russell Gleason, Richard Alexander, Harold Goodwin, Slim Summerville.A group of young World War I German recruits pass from idealism to disillusionment with war.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD; Dolby digital, full screen presentation.Academy Award for Best Picture, 1929-30
Subjects: Anti-war films.; Death; Feature films.; Soldiers; War films.; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;
© c2012., Universal Home Video,
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Westward ho [videorecording] / by Bell, Hank.; Bradbury, Robert N.(Robert North); Bromley, Sheila,1911-2003.; Canutt, Yakima,1895-1986.; Curtis, Jack,1880-1956.; Jones, Dickie,1927-; MacLaren, Mary,1896-; Malvern, Paul,1902-1993.; McGlynn, Frank,1904-1939.; Parsons, Lindsley,1905-1992.; Wayne, John,1907-1979.; Olive Films.; Republic Pictures Corporation.;
John Wayne, Sheila Mannors, Frank McGlynn, Jr., Jack Curtis, Yakima Canutt, Mary McLaren, Dickie Jones, Hank Bell.While searching for the brother he has been separated from since childhood, John Wayne forms a vigilante group to catch a vicious band of outlaws. On the trail of the bandits, Wayne come face-to-face with his biggest fear: the brother he has been trying to find is the leader of the gang.PG.DVD, full screen, Dolby monaural audio, digitally mastered.
Subjects: Brothers; Feature films.; Outlaws; Vigilantes; Western films.;
© c2013., Republic Pictures Home Video : Distrbuted by Olive Films,
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Day in the country [videorecording] / by Gabriello,1896-1975,actor.; Bataille, Sylvia,1912-1993.; Braunberger, Pierre,1905-1990.; Brunius, Jacques-B.,actor.; D'Arnoux, Georges,actor.; Faulkner, Christopher,interviewee (expression),filmmaker.; Fleischer, Alain,1944-filmmaker.; Fontan, Gabrielle,1873-1959,actor.; Kosma, Joseph,1905-1969,composer (expression); Marken, Jane,1895-1976.; Maupassant, Guy de,1850-1893.Partie de campagne.Videorecording.; Montero, Germaine,singer.; Perez, Gilberto,1943-writer of supplementary textual content.; Renoir, Claude,1914-1993,director of photography.; Renoir, Jean,1894-1979.; Renoir, Marguerite,actor,editor of moving image work.; Temps, Paul,actor.; Criterion Collection (Firm); Janus Films,production company.; Pantheon Productions,production company.;
Song sung by Germaine Montero ; editors, Marguerite Houle Renoir, Marinette Cadix ; music, Kosma ; director of photography, Claude Renoir.Sylvia Bataille, Georges Saint-Saens, Jeanne Marken, Gabriello, Jacques Borel, Paul Temps, Gabrielle Fontan, Jean Renoir, Marguerite Renoir.A tenderly comic idyll about a city family's picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men.PG.DVD, NTSC, region 1; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital monaural.
Subjects: Families; Feature films.; Foreign films; Motion pictures, French.; Picnics; Romance films.;
© 2015., Criterion Collection,
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