Nash is also well known as the author of seven previous acclaimed books, including Cue the Elephant, Prime Time at Ten, Kennedy and Diefenbaker, The Microphone Wars, Trivia Pursuit, and The Swashbucklers.

Nash is also well known as the author of seven previous acclaimed books, including Cue the Elephant, Prime Time at Ten, Kennedy and Diefenbaker, The Microphone Wars, Trivia Pursuit, and The Swashbucklers. Knowlton Nash lives in Toronto with his wife, Lorraine Thomson.

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My first exposure to the Diefenbaker/Kennedy conflict was Knowlton Nash's book, Kennedy and Diefenbaker. But let's remember it was under Diefenbaker that the federal government first started looking into expanding Saskatchewan's Medicare program nationally. It was an interesting introduction because, as I recall, Nash adored Kennedy and disliked Diefenbaker. Diefenbaker gave us the Bill of Rights (precursor to the Charter of Rights). He led the drive to expel South Africa from the Commonwealth over its apartheid policies.

Knowlton Nash, Kennedy & Diefenbaker: The Feud That Helped Topple a Government (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1991), 11. Ben Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy (New York: Norton, 1975), 183. Peter C. Newman, Renegade in Power: The Diefenbaker Years (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963); Nash, Kennedy & Diefenbaker; Patricia McMahon, Essence of Indecision: Diefenbaker’s Nuclear Policy, 1957-1963 (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009); Denis Smith, Rogue Tory: The Life and Legend of John G. Diefenbaker (Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross,.

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Along with his books on the CBC, Nash also wrote his memoir, History on the Run, about his time as a foreign correspondent, as well as history books like Kennedy and Diefenbaker: The Feud that Helped Topple a Government. In 2002, Nash was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. There are a lot worse things that could be happening to yo. ith Parkinson's, you just have to cope with it and get on with it," Nash told the Hill Times in 2010