bout de papier, Volume 5, Issue No. 4, 1988
bout de papier, Volume 6, Issue No. 1, 1988
Makers of Modern Asia
ASIA’S SEEMINGLY INEXORABLE rise has, to a considerable extent, been the story of its economic transformation. In Makers of Modern Asia, editor Ramachandra Guha argues that political factors were the necessary conditions for this emergence. He gathers leading historians and political analysts…
GRIT
He was a minister unlike any other. His hopes and fears, anxieties and disappointments, were ever on the surface. Neither French – or Québécois – enough for the pundits in Montreal nor English enough for the Anglo-Canadian establishment. A progressive liberal and…
Sherwood Lett. His Life and Times
La biographie, un exercice difficile que peu parviennent à maîtriser, est à la mode. Du côté de la pire mixture dans le genre, les lecteurs rencontreront l’amateurisme partisan d’un Michel Vastel, traitant d’un Pierre E. Trudeau. Par contre, le travail sur Sherwood…
Unfinished Journey: The Lewis Story
Through its long association with the CCF and the NDP, the Lewis family has had a profound and enduring influence on Canadian political life. In Unfinished Journey, Cameron Smith, a former managing editor of the Globe and Mail, recounts with obvious enthusiasm…
Roland Michener: The Last Viceroy
Roland Michener was not a dull man. Unfortunately, Peter Stursburg’s biography of him, The Last Viceroy, is a dull book and, in my view, fails to convey to the reader the real nature of the man.
Joey — The Life and Political Times of Joey Smallwood
On Christmas Eve, 1989, Joey Smallwood turned 89. He has had a long and eventful life and it is no surprise that we now have two full scale biographies of him (Richard Gwyn’s Smallwood: The Unlikely Revolutionary was published in 1968, and…
Shadow of Heaven: The Life of Lester Pearson. Volume One: 1897-1948
The perfect title for this biography of Lester Pearson would have been simply “Mike,” but, since Pearson had already used it for his own memoirs, John English had to cast around for something different. He hit upon an expression used by Milton…
What Manner of Men?
t was Carlyle who championed the biographical approach to history arguing that great events were really just the story of great men. Greatness is an elusive quality; many aspire to it but few succeed Trudeau’s long hold on office and many accomplishments…
