The first ever biography of one of Canada's best-known and most colourful personalities by an award-winning author. From his northern childhood on, it was clear that Pierre Berton (1920--2004) was different from his peers. Over the course of his eighty-four years, he would become the most famous Canadian media figure of his time, in newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and books -- sometimes all at once. Berton dominated bookstore shelves for...