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John Diefenbaker couldn't have known that his neighbour had only twenty-two more seconds to live ... read more
 
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Award-winning book weaves fictitious tale
of real-life prime minister

By Doyle Fox, Regina Leader-Post

Imagine an elementary school history textbook telling the story of a young John G. Diefenbaker witnessing a murder in his hometown of Borden, Sask., and helping solve the mystery of the unknown killer. Sound a little fictitious? Absolutely. But there might be a history lesson in the former prime minister’s story too, said Roderick Benns ... Read more

   

   
 

“Finally, a book about John Diefenbaker...the first in Fireside Publishing House’s new Leaders & Legacies series of fictional adventures experienced by Canadian PMs in the days of their youth.”

-- Maclean’s Magazine

“A new inventive historical fiction series…”

-- Canada’s National History Society
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  through Fireside Publishing House for $12.95 (no shipping fees, no taxes). Click here.
 
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