About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 187. Chapters: Leonard Cohen, Jack Layton, Maher Arar, Zbigniew Brzezinski, David Lewis (politician), Alexander Cameron Rutherford, William Shatner, Conrad Black, Douglas Coupland, Charles Krauthammer, Santa J. Ono, Jon Gerrard, Sylvain Simard, James Naismith, Thomas Mulcair, Dwight Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier, William Osler, Brian Topp, Justin Trudeau, Richard Warman, Ken Dryden, Mary Fahl, Rachelle Lefevre, Steven Pinker, Randal Marlin, R. Tait McKenzie, Charles Taylor (philosopher), Adam Giambrone, George F. Bond, Ian Stevenson, Vaira V e-Freiberga, Mortimer Zuckerman, John Ralston Saul, George Burnett (ice hockey), Andre Bouchard, James Alcock, Neil Brown (Canadian politician), Gerald Cohen, Louis Dudek, Brian Slattery, Lorne Abony, Anand Patwardhan, Hillel Neuer, Frances Oldham Kelsey, Matthew Bryden, Tim Wu, Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Dafydd Williams, David Atkinson (baritone), Amir Khadir, Edward Jenkins (MP), John Abbott, Stefan Molyneux, Jan Wong, Andrew McNaughton, Laurie Holden. Excerpt: Leonard Norman Cohen, (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality, and interpersonal relationships. Cohen has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011 Cohen received Prince of Asturias Award for literature. In a speech at Cohen's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 10 March 2008, Lou Reed described Cohen as belonging to the "highest and most influential echelon of songwriters." The critic Bruce Eder wrote an assessment of Cohen's overall career in popular music, writing, " one of the most fascinating and enigmatic. . .singer/songwriters of...