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Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt

By Yves Engler

Book information

Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Year
2012
ISBN
1552665100, 9781552665107
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
181 kB (185370 bytes)
Pages
160\0
Time added
2017-03-23 22:53:34
Political;Leaders & Notable People;Biographies & M

Description

Lester Pearson is one of Canada�s most important political figures. A Nobel Peace laureate, he is considered a great peacekeeper and �honest broker.� But in this critical examination of his work, Pearson is exposed as an ardent cold warrior who backed colonialism and apartheid in Africa, Zionism, coups in Guatemala, Iran and Brazil and the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic. A beneficiary of U.S. intervention in Canadian political affairs, he also provided important support to the U.S. in Vietnam and pushed to send troops to the American war in Korea. Written in the form of a submission to an imagined �Truth and Reconciliation� commission about Canada�s foreign policy past Lester Pearson�s Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt challenges one of the most important Canadian foreign policy myths. **

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