Confident enough to lead with your gut, not just the polls?

Lester Pearson was, and he accomplished a lot in minority Parliaments and scandals.

All the federal political leaders today lack "quality" leadership traits, says leading author and newspaper columnist Andrew Cohen, who just wrote Lester B. Pearson, published by Penguin Books as part of its "Extraordinary Canadians" series and edited by John Ralston Saul.

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