"Anderson delivers a brisk, gripping yarn making excellent use of his research, including mulitple interviews with surviving actors in the drama. Meanwhile Pearson ... is front and centre throughout. That Anderson captures him so well is a tribute to his metier as a storyteller." — Literary Review of Canada
"What [Anderson] has given us is not only a penetrating character analysis of Mike Pearson but also a clear-headed analysis of the evolution of Canadian foreign policy and a riveting narrative of the Suez crisis itself ... at a time when many are talking about a return to 'Pearsonian values' in our foreign policy, it is a truly welcome addition to our understanding of both the man and the era in which he worked." — Canada's History
"Antony Anderson describes a moment when Canada mattered internationally. Lester Pearson's extraordinary diplomatic skills, which were demonstrated fully during the Suez Crisis of 1956, won the respect of his colleagues at the United Nations and increased the pride of Canadians in their nation's; role in the world. In a clearly written and often gripping account, Antony Anderson describes how Pearson's experience and Canada's reputation as a fair interlocutor placed him in a position to make a significant contribution to international peace." — John English, CM, FRSC
" In 1957 Lester Pearson won the Nobel Prize for Peace for his diplomacy during the Suez Crisis. But what brought Pearson to Suez, and what explains why he acted as he did? Antony Anderson, in a work of stunning originality, traces the threads that linked Pearson and Canada to the Middle East, not just for a few months in 1956, but over the previous half century. This is a book that should be on the shelf of every Canadian interested in our foreign policy, and public policy generally." — Robert Bothwell
