Berton’s high and low culture life

Author Brian McKillop probes into Canadian icon Pierre Berton, a complicated commanding creature, who in some ways was a perpetual boy scout and never grew up.

Author, journalist, and Canadian icon Pierre Berton was a "complicated creature," "self-centered and arrogant," yet "shy, loyal, generous and [an] abiding friend," says Carleton University history professor Brian McKillop, in his recently-released 800-page book Pierre Berton: A Biography....

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