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Title Miracle at the Forks : the museum that dares make a difference : the Canadian Museum for Human Rights / Peter C. Newman, Allan Levine.
Author Newman , Peter C. , 1929- , author
Detail xv, 183 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm
Abstract Miracle at the Forks recounts the fourteen-year odyssey of making Izzy Asper's dream a reality. It describes the financial and political challenges of building Canada's fifth national museum, an objective that was made all the more difficult by Asper's death in 2003. Written by acclaimed nonfiction writers Peter C. Newman and Allan Levine, Miracle at the Forks also tells the story of the creation of the museum itself, of the development of its unique content, the international competition to find a world-class architect, and of Antoine Predock, the architect who dared build a museum that is as remarkable in its construct as Izzy Asper's dream was in its audacity
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