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 […]
Library Books
1. In Defence Of Globalization, by Jagdish Bhagwati. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 308 P. 2. «Contre tous les ennemis: au coeur de la guerre américaine contre le terrorisme,» Richard Clarke. Paris: Albin Michel, 2004. 363 P. 3. Bush Versus The Environment, by Bob Devine. New York: Anchor Books, 2004. 270 P. 4. Wesley […]
New book charts Canada’s history with speeches
A new book puts the words of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Henri Bourassa, J.S. Woodsworth and Jean Chrétien, among other luminaries of Canadian politics, together in one impressive tome of speeches that have marked and defined the country. The book, Great Canadian Speeches, is edited by former NDP MP Dennis Gruending. “This book is written for […]
Library Books
1. Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War On Terror, Richard Clarke. New York: Free Press, 2004. 304 P. 2. «L’agression: les États-Unis, l’Irak et le monde,» Jocelyn Coulon. Outremont (Québec): Athena, 2004. 274 P. 3. Tibet, Tibet: A personal History Of a Lost Land, Patrick French. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 2003. 325 […]
