Declassified
REMEMBER THE TIME the retired ambassadors got together in the backyard? It was just gone summer. A nip in the air, but there was a nice fire going. What a night. And the stories! April told the one about Castro getting schooled…
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…
Running on Empty
RUNNING ON EMPTY is the most recent addition to the prestigious McGill-Queen’s collection of Studies in (Canadian) Ethnic History. This impressive tome recounts the intriguing story of Canada’s response to the Indochinese refugee crises from 1975 to 1980. Proposed by retired diplomat…
O.D. Skelton
O.D. SKELTON: A PORTRAIT OF CANADIAN AMBITION, by Norman Hillmer, University of Toronto Press, 2015, 455 pp, $39.95
Pacific
PACIFIC: SILICON CHIPS AND SURFBOARDS, CORAL REEFS AND ATOMIC BOMBS, BRUTAL DICTATORS, FADING EMPIRES, AND THE COMING COLLISION OF THE WORLD’S SUPERPOWERS, by Simon Winchester, New York: HarperCollins, 2015, 512 pp
GRIT
GRIT: THE LIFE AND POLITICS OF PAUL MARTIN SR., by Greg Donaghy, UBC Press, 2015, 496 pp $35.76
Superforecasting
On August 17, 2007, George Soros hosted twenty of Wall Street’s most senior financiers to lunch at his Long Island estate. Earlier in the month, BNP Paribas had frozen withdrawals from three of its funds and central bankers around the world were…
Points of Entry
CANADA’S IMMIGRATION OFFICERS DECIDE WHO GETS IN, by Vic Satzewich, University of Toronto Press, 2015, 305 pp, $32.95 paper
« What Would You Say? …as guest speaker at the next Canadian citizenship ceremony »
«WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? AS GUEST SPEAKER AT THE NEXT CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP CEREMONY» de Robin Higham, Invenire, 2015, 139 pp., $ 16.95
Whose Man In Havana?
Note de la redaction : Dans son livre Whi professionel et credible, et sur le réle de ce a cœur. Shauna Hemingway a rencontre lai generation d’agents du service extérieur.
