St-Laurent in Government : Realism and Idealism in Action / Patrice Dutil -- Grandpapa : A Portrait of the Man and His Family / Jean Therese Riley -- The Predominant Prime Minister : St-Laurent and His Cabinet / Stephen Azzi -- Uncle Lou, Both Old and New : The Marketing of St-Laurent / Paul Litt -- St-Laurent and the Age of Bureaucracy / Robert Bothwell -- Thinking Confederation : St-Laurent and the Rowell-Sirois Commission / Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson -- The Liminality of St-Laurent's Intergovernmental Relations Strategy / P.E. Bryden -- St-Laurent : The Last Father of Confederation? / David MacKenzie -- Defence, Development, and the Inuit : St-Laurent's Modern Approach to the North / Whitney Lackenbauer -- "But There Is another Source of Liberty and Vitality in Our Country": St-Laurent and Regional Development / Michel Beaulieu -- St-Laurent and Modern Provincial Equality / Mary Janigan -- St-Laurent and the Modernization of the State / Luc Juillet and Luc Bernier -- The Cautious Liberal : St-Laurent and National Hospitalization / Greg Marchildon -- St-Laurent, Quebec, and the French Fact : Belonging and Ambivalence / Xavier Gelinas -- The Politics of St-Laurent on the Crown, Rituals, and Symbols / Christopher McCreery -- St-Laurent, Judging, Justice, and the Death Penalty in the Shadow of the Cold War / Philip Girard -- In Search of the St-Laurent Voting Coalition / Patrice Dutil -- Winning Words : Party Platforms in the 1949, 1953, and 1957 Elections / Patrice Dutil and Peter M. Ryan -- "The Greatest Period ... Canada Has Had" : Immigration and the St-Laurent Years / Abril Liberatori -- The Slow Evolution of Indian Policy during the St-Laurent Years / J.R. Miller -- St-Laurent's Gray Lecture and Canadian Citizenship in History / Adam Chapnick -- A Voyage of Discovery : St-Laurent's World Tour of 1954 / Greg Donaghy -- Postscript: Eastern Township Thinking / Hon. Jean Charest.
Summary:
"Much of Canada's modern identity emerged from the innovative social policies and ambitious foreign policy of Louis St-Laurent's Liberal government. His extraordinarily creative administration made decisions that still resonate today: on health care, pensions, and housing; on infrastructure and intergovernmental issues; and, further afield, on developing Canada's global middle-power role and resolving the Suez Crisis. Yet St-Laurent remains an enigmatic figure. The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent fills a great void in Canadian political history, bringing together well-established and emerging scholars to investigate the far-reaching influence of the politician who presided over the last stage of the longest uninterrupted run in power of any Canadian federal party."-- Provided by publisher.
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