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Arthur Slade. John Diefenbaker

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John G. Diefenbaker, 1895–1979.

Arthur Slade is the author of four books for young adults: Draugr, which was nominated for a Saskatchewan Book Award for Children and a Small Press Book Award in the U.S., The Haunting of Drang Island, The Loki Wolf, and Dust. He also penned the comic book Hallowed Knight, which was made in Saskatchewan and sold worldwide. His short fiction and non-fiction work has appeared in various magazines throughout North America and been broadcast on CBC Radio.

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And so John set to dedicating himself. How do you become a politician? How do you become leader of the land? He read biographies and soon recognized there were two things he had to master to achieve his goal of getting into politics: public speaking and the law.

He was especially drawn to the law because he had read the biography of Abraham Lincoln, who had started as a small town lawyer and had risen to become the president of the United States. It seemed the obvious path to take.

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