People, Politics, and PurposeBiography is not on the periphery of history but in the middle of it, historian Peter Waite astutely remarked. People, Politics, and Purpose brings the historians myriad tools to bear on Canadians, from prime ministers to lumberjacks to Indigenous leaders. Drawing on the rich details of biography the what the contributors also address the larger questions of motivation the so what that drive history. In the process, they prove the value of analyzing