Library Articles
1. Idéologie et pouvoir, by Noam Chomsky. Anvers:Éditions EPO, 2004. 208 P. 2. What Happened To The Blueprint For Atlantic Advance: The Leaders And Followers, The Politicians, The Experts And Promoters, by H.A. Fredericks. Fredericton: HLG Marketing, 2004. 243 P. 3. Capitalizing On Culture: Critical Theory For Cultural Studies, by Shane Gunster. Toronto: University of […]
The Hill Times’ list of political, history and public policy books
Turning Points: The Campaigns that Changed Canada 2004 and Before, by Ray Argyle, White Knight Publications, 499 pages, $29.95. Back of the jacket: “In a career advising Canadian politicians, corporate chieftains and international luminaries such as actor Peter Ustinov, U.S. president Gerald Ford and German chancellor Ludwig Erhard, Ray Argyle has been a first-hand witness […]
HT’s list of recently-released Canadian books, good reads
Great Canadian Speeches, selected and edited by Dennis Gruending, Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 312 pages, $32.95. On the back jacket: “Throughout history, men and women of great eloquence have persuaded their contemporaries to build nations, to make war and create peace, to sway judges and juries, to celebrate the accomplishments of the living, and to mourn […]
Recently-released political and government books
Inventing Tax Rage: Misinformation in the National Post, by Larry Patriquin, Fernwood Publishing, 190 pages, $24.95. From the back cover: “During the National Post’s first year of publication, it claimed that Canada’s supposedly exorbitant taxes were causing great damage to the economy and had produced a form of ‘tax rage’ among the middle class. In […]
Author Kaplan returns with final Mulroney-Cameron dust-up
Author, lawyer and trained historian William Kaplan has written A Secret Trial: Brian Mulroney and Stevie Cameron blowing apart much of an earlier book he wrote about the two great political protagonists in 1988. This time Kaplan says after Mulroney left office, he received $300,000 in cash in a commercial transaction, in envelopes, given to […]
Recently-Released Political Books Worth Reading
A Secret Trial: Brian Mulroney Stevie Cameron and the Public Trust, by William Kaplan. Foreword by J.L. Granatstein and Afterword by Norman Spector, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 245 pages. Back of the jacket: “This is a tar baby of a story. Absolutely everyone connected to it comes out looking bad. At the centre of it all […]
Library Books
1. Bélanger, Réal. Une premiére: un Canadien français dirige le Canada. Cap-aux-diamants nš 73:24-8 printemps 2003. (nš 25662) 2. Dodge, David. Keeping Canada Prosperous in an Economically Unsound World. Canadian speeches, issues of the day 17:4, 12-15 Mar./Apr. 2003. (no. 25624) 3. Quigley, Tim, Chuck Doucette et Pierre Lescadre. Drogues et crimimalité: reflexion sur la […]
Recently-Released Political, Historical Books Worth Reading
The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, by Jacques Poitras, Goose Lane Editions, 366 pages, $35. The publicity: “The Right Fight is a big history, a story whose sweep and detail far surpass what we’re used to reading. Jacques Poitras tells the story of a century’s worth of New Brunswickers, French and English, […]
Recently released Canadian, U.S. political, history and government books
The Oxford Companion To Canadian History, edited by Gerald Hallowell, Oxford University Press, 748 pages, $79.95. Inside the jacket: “Here, in a single volume, is the essential reference book for all those interested in Canadian history.” Red Diaper Baby: A Boyhood in the Age of McCarthyism, by James Laxer, Douglas & McIntyre, 184 pages. Inside […]
Library Books
1. Disciplining Dissent: The Curbing Of Free Expression In Academia And The Media, by William Bruneau. Toronto: J. Lorimer, 2004. 223 P. 2. «Le Dossier noir des commandites: l’industrie canadienne de l’unité nationale contre la démocratie québécoise,» Jacques Keable. Outremont: Lanctôt, 2004. 178 P. 3. The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity And […]
