Recently Released Books
A Reporter’s Life: Peter Jennings, edited by Kate Darnton, Kayce Freed Jennings, and Lynn Sherr, Public Affairs, 400 pp., $33.50. Book’s blurb: “He rose to the top of his profession based on dogged determination and an incredible curiosity, a lot of talent and hard work, and you knew that all of that was going to […]
Recently Released Books
At the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1914-1916: Volume One, by Tim Cook, Viking Canada, 464 pp., $40. Book’s blurb: “The focus here is on the infantry at the sharp end: those men in the trenches who faced the enemy and bore the heaviest brunt of the fighting. The ‘poor bloody infantry,’ wrote […]
What’s so wrong with first past the post? Lots
OTTAWA–Anyone who has tried to write a book can attest that it is no easy task. With so many other worldly distractions, it takes considerable willpower to keep the mind sufficiently focused and the seat firmly planted in a chair, day after day. As my learned friend Donald Savoie once described it, in order to […]
Recently released book
On Assignment in Afghanistan: Maritimers at War, photography by Christian Laforce, text by Chris Lambie, Nimbus, 96 pp., $18.95. Book’s blurb: “Canadian troops–among them a disproportionate number of Maritime men and women–have been on assignment in Afghanistan since 2002. To bring the day-to-day lives of the troops back home, and to document in particular the […]
NEW POLITICAL BOOKS
Brian Mulroney, Memoirs, 1939-19993, by Brian Mulroney, Douglas Gibson, 1,121 pp., $52. Book’s blurb: “This is a unique book about a unique Canadian life–about a boy, born and raised in a working-class family in remote Baie-Comeau, who rose to the highest office in the land. How he got there, an outsider fighting his way to […]
Recently Released Books
How Canada Spends 2007-2008: The Harper Conservatives – Climate of Change, edited by G. Bruce Doern, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 324 pp. Book’s blurb: “In the twenty-eighth edition of How Ottawa Spends leading Canadian scholars examine the Harper government’s agenda in the context of Stéphane Dion’s election as Liberal opposition leader and the emergence of climate […]
Canadian photographer captures beauty, tragedy in Afghan women
Forsaken, by Lana Slezic, Anansi Canada. Book’s blurb: “In 2004, award-winning Canadian photographer Lana Slezic went to Afghanistan with, in her own words, ‘preconceived notions and a knapsack pull of naivety.’ She believed the ousting of the Taliban in 2001 meant that girls were back in school, women could choose whether or not to wear […]
Newly Released Books
Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge, by Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard and Nik Rivers, McClelland & Stewart, 280 pp, $29.99. Book’s blurb: “Take Jeffrey Simpson, renowned political expert, and writer of clear prose aimed at the intelligent reader. Add Mark Jaccard, prize-winning author of academic books, and Simon Fraser University’s famed climate change guru. […]
Recently-released political books
Where War Lives, by Paul Watson, McClelland & Stewart, 384 pages, available August 18, 2007. Book’s blurb: “With the click of a shutter, the world came to know Staff Sgt. William David Cleveland as a desecrated corpse. On October 4, 1993, Paul Watson took his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of Cleveland- the U.S. soldier whose Black […]
Books Recently Released
• The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq, by Gwynne Dyer, McClelland & Stewart, 280 pp., $21.99, available June 30. Book’s blurb: “The Invasion of Iraq by the United States and the ongoing, ferocious insurgency it has provoked, will forever change the political landscape, not just in Iraq, but in the whole of […]
