The Diplomat

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2015

ISBN-13: 9780864928030

<p><b>Shortlisted, John W. Dafoe Book Prize</b></p><p>Saturday, November 3, 1956<br>The United Nations, New York City<br>about 10 p.m.</p><p>Lester Pearson, Canada&#39;s foreign minister &#40;and future prime minister&#41; stands before the United Nations General Assembly. He is about to speak, reading from a proposal composed of seventy-eight painstakingly chosen words. These words, shaped by caution and hope, are a last-ditch attempt to prevent a conflict in Egypt from igniting a conflagration throughout the Middle East. Pearson, in perhaps his finest hour, is about to carve out a razor&#39;s edge of common ground to bring together angry allies and bitter enemies by suggesting and making possible the creation of the first UN peacekeeping force.</p><p>Pearson&#39;s diplomacy throughout the Suez Crisis launched a bold experiment in international security and cemented Canada&#39;s reputation as &#34;a moderate, mediatory, middle power.&#34; And yet, until now, no one has told the full story of how this Canadian diplomat led the world back from the brink of war. In a unique blending of biography and political history, Antony Anderson&#39;s <i>The Diplomat</i> draws from diplomatic cables, memoirs, diaries, anecdotes, official memoranda, and exclusive author interviews to create not only a compelling portrait of Pearson, the man at the centre of the negotiations, but also a nuanced analysis of the political maze navigated by Pearson to avert a bloody war.</p>