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THE INSIDE STORY
THE INSIDE STORY
A Life in Journalism
Anthony Westell
Copyright © Anthony Westell, 2002
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National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data
Westell, Anthony, 1926–
The inside story: a life in journalism
ISBN 1-55002-375-6
1. Westell, Anthony, 1926– 2. Journalists — Canada — Biography. 3. Canada — Politics and government — 1935– I. Title.
PN4913.W48A3 2002 070’.92 C2002-901070-5
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Surfacing in the Gene Pool
Chapter 2: Growing Up in the Old World
Chapter 4: Funerals, Fleet Street, Family Man
Chapter 5: Getting Started in Politics
Chapter 6: Small Head, Big Feet Lead to Canada
Chapter 7: Good Times at the Globe
Chapter 8: Making a National Name
Chapter 9: The Last Days of Pearson and Diefenbaker
Chapter 10: Trudeau and Transition
Chapter 11: Sideways to a New Career
Chapter 13: The Rise and Fall of Canadian Nationalism
Chapter 14: Reinventing Canada
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The story of my life is in many ways the story of how the lives of others have touched and ordered my own. So I acknowledge my debt to everyone mentioned in this book, and indeed to hundreds more. But
