Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
In Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy, Pulitzer-prize-winning author Charlie Savage has written an odyssey. His odyssey chronicles Vice-President Dick Cheney, starting with his beginnings as a 28-year-old executive assistant to Donald Rumsfeld, himself then…
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
How did the United States get into the Iraqi quagmire so quickly, with so few allies, and with no apparent game plan? That question and its many variations have dominated a huge and growing collection of materials by journalists and academics, to…
The Ambassador’s Word — Hostage Crisis in Peru, 1996–1997
Big and little heroes/heroines of the Canadian Foreign Service are at work every day in or out of Ottawa engaged in the many crises of our global village. Occasionally an event occurs and someone steps up to the plate to become that…
Woman of the World: Mary McGeachy and International Cooperation
Ah, the great names of Canadian diplomacy — Lester Pearson, Norman Robertson, Marcel Cadieux, Mary McGeachy. “Mary who?” you may ask. You would be forgiven for not knowing that a Canadian was among the few women to achieve senior rank at the…
An Inside Look at External Affairs During the Trudeau Years: The Memoirs of Mark MacGuigan
shaping Canadian foreign policy. “Trudeau’s style,” MacGuigan writes, “was … dangerous. His instinct, it always seemed to me, Was not just to establish objectively that he was right, by demolishing his opponents’ arguments, but also to destroy their self-respect, to hurt them…
A Moveable Marriage: Relocate Your Marriage Without Breaking It
A Moveable Marriage: Relocate Your Marriage Without Breaking It is a wise and courageous treatment of sensitive issues that are frequently ignored. Without doubt, it should allow women to stop beating up both on themselves AND on their husbands. Robin Pascoe logically…
Why Canadian Unity Matters and Why Americans Care: Democratic Pluralism at Risk
“If democratic pluralism fails in North America, where else can this grand experiment prevail? In the new millennium, the people of Canada can leave no greater gift to humanity than the knowledge, based on a history of shared political culture, that democratic…
Cooper’s Snoopers and Other Follies
There is a big disappointment, for which you should prepare yourself, when you get to page 164 of this little book: it ends. And it ends far too soon. To be fair, the author has subtitled it “Fragments of a Life” and…
The Invisible War: The Untold Secret Story of Number One Canadian Special Wireless Group
In 1944, just over 300 Canadian soldiers were sent to Australia on a Top Secret intelligence mission which has largely remained untold until now. They were members of Number One Canadian Special Wireless Group (1CSWG) and their job was to collect signals…
Canadian Peacekeepers in Indochina 1954–1973: Recollections
In 1631, a year before he died in Milan, Fr. Christoforo Borri, S.J., one of the first missionaries to Cochin-China, wrote in his “Relacione della nueve missione … al Regno della Cocincina” that the first strangers to arrive in Vietnam were shipwrecked…
