Editing Pierre Berton (section)

==1990s-2000s==
In 1992, he published ''Niagara: A History'', a social history dealing with the people associated with the [[Niagara Falls]] together with a follow-up picture book of Niagara falls in 1993.{{sfn|McKillop|2011|pp=615–616}} Unlike his other books, the Niagara books sold poorly, which marked the beginning of his decline from his position as Canada's preeminent public intellectual.{{sfn|McKillop|2011|pp=615–616}} The decline of the appeal of his books was linked to the decline of the "new nationalism" he had been associated with. Berton almost seemed to acknowledge the decline of the "new nationalism" in his 1997 book ''1967 The Last Good Year'', arguing that the Centennial year of 1967 was the highpoint of Canadian history and everything that had happened since 1967 had been a story of decline and decay.{{sfn|McKillop|2011|pp=650–651}} In a review of ''Onward to War'' in the ''Globe & Mail'' in October 2001, the historian [[Modris Eksteins]]  wrote: "'Canada's historian', as his publishers are describing him in recent advertising, takes us with his usual narrative verve across sundry battlefields, of South Africa, northern Europe and Korea, but also Ottawa and other venues of our domestic political strife....is this kind of judgmental narrative what history should be in the 21st century? If the world changed in the last century as dramatically as Berton insists, can - or should - history be written in much the same way [[Thomas Carlyle|Carlyle]] and [[Thomas Babington Macaulay|Macaulay]] presented it over a century ago? ...That vision of the past as an interconnected whole has shattered over the century about which Berton writes, as if hit by a mammoth artillery shell, but there's no sign of this in his account.<ref name="Martin"/>