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THE PATRIOT GAME: NATIONAL DREAMS & POLITICAL REALITIES.

By: Brimelow, Peter.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter: 1986

Seller ID: 28519

ISBN: 1550130013

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

310 pp, 9 1/2" H. "(A)rgues that Canada ought to be a second Switzerland, with a living standard actually higher than that of the U.S. But in fact it is embroiled in a tangle of regional and linguistic quarrels, mainipulated by both the Liberals and their Mulroney Tory imitators, and an elite in Ottawa that truly represents neither Anglophones nor Francophones. 'The Patriot Games' offers an unconventional view of Canada that will shatter many myths. Brimelow endorses the argument of Goldwin Smith's 1891 classic 'Canada and the Canadian Question' that our country is 'rich by nature,...
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THE FORKED ROAD: CANADA, 1939-1957.

By: Creighton, Donald.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28339

ISBN: 077102360X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

319 pp, 9 1/4" H. One of 'The Canadian Centenary Series'. B&w plates. "Canada's declaration of war against Germany in 1939 marked the beginning of the most significant eighteen-year period in the history of this nation. By the end of the Liberal regime in 1957 the country had undergone immense growth in human and material resources. The experience of the Second World War had been followed by participation in the Korean War and ten years of the Cold War. The Great Depression had given way to a boom which had continued through the exchange crisis, serious inflation and minor recess...
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YEARS OF IMPATIENCE, 1950-1960 & YEARS OF CHOICE, 1960-1968. 2 VOLUME SET.

By: Pelletier, Gerard. Translated by Alan Brown.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Methuen: 1984

Edition: First English Language Edition.

Seller ID: 28961

ISBN: 0458982709

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

245 pp, 320 pp, 9 1/4" H - 2 volume set. B&w photographs. 1. Years of Impatience, 1950-1960: "Gerard Pelletier - activist, journalist, politician and diplomat - deftly portrays 'a Quebec and a Canada immobile on their surface but moved in their depths by hidden currents of rare power.' And he tells of the birth of the men of action who tapped those currents - who 'were' those currents - and created a new Quebec, confident, assured and comfortable with the ideas and the attitudes of the late twentieth century. (This book) is also about friendships within this band of catalysts loosely...
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THE MACKENZIE KING RECORD. VOLUME 2. 1944-1945. (VOLUME II)

By: Pickersgill, J.W. And Forster, D.F.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28871

ISBN: 802015255

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

495 pp, 9 1/4" H. *Volume 2 only.* B&w photographs. Contents: Preface; Introduction; A Domestic Interlude; Waiting for Victory; Cabinet Reorganization; The Reinforcement Crisis, 1944, Phase I; The Reinforcement Crisis, 1944, Phase II; The Switch to Conscription; Grey North and the Aftermath of Confederation; Political Preparations; San Francisco and the Election; Election Postmortems and Peace; Appendix; Index. Three tiny edge bumps on boards, one very small corner bump, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light toning to spine, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spi...
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Keyword: Maurice Duplessis

THE PATRIOT GAME: NATIONAL DREAMS & POLITICAL REALITIES.

THE FORKED ROAD: CANADA, 1939-1957.

YEARS OF IMPATIENCE, 1950-1960 & YEARS OF CHOICE, 1960-1968. 2 VOLUME SET.

THE MACKENZIE KING RECORD. VOLUME 2. 1944-1945. (VOLUME II)