Smug Minority

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Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551995336
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Smug Minority written by Pierre Berton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about freedom – and the lack of it – in Canada: freedom from useless and often degrading toil, freedom from want and freedom from ignorance. It is Pierre Berton’s thesis, documented by public statements made over the past generation, that a smug minority of business and political leaders has conspired to inhibit that freedom. The establishment, says Berton, has brainwashed the public into believing a series of myths which have no validity in a post-Puritan age. These myths include such old saws as “A woman’s place is in the home” . . . “Anybody can work his way through college” . . . “Satan finds more mischief still for idle hands to do” . . . “Too much security kills initiative” . . . “It’s your own fault you’re so poor. The author indicts his fellow countrymen for failing to invest in human beings in the same way that they invest in power plants, highways, and gold mines. His researches into poverty in Canada and into inequalities of the educational system will shock a good many readers just as his theories on work and leisure will enrage others raised in the Calvinist ethic. The book ranges over a wide variety of topics: the hippie movement in Toronto’s Yorkville village . . . the author’s personal experiences in a Yukon mining camp . . . the future of educational television in Canada . . . the Chamber of Commerce’s abortive “Operation Freedom” campaign. But always Berton hammers on his central theme – that the nation has been held back by an inbred power-elite: “Selfish, narrow, short-sighted men unable to grasp the vision of the future, imprisoned by a bookkeeping attitude to life, creeping silently and blindly along at the tag end of the parade of progress.” The Smug Minority is certain to stimulate the same kind of national debate that the author’s previous best-selling book about religion, The Comfortable Pew, engendered. Many will disagree with its central thesis but few will be able to put it down. It’s that kind of book.

Pierre Berton

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Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551996227
Total Pages : 826 pages
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Download or read book Pierre Berton written by Brian Mckillop and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever biography of one of Canada’s best-known and most colourful personalities by an award-winning author. From his northern childhood on, it was clear that Pierre Berton (1920—2004) was different from his peers. Over the course of his eighty-four years, he would become the most famous Canadian media figure of his time, in newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and books — sometimes all at once. Berton dominated bookstore shelves for almost half a century, winning Governor General’s Awards for Klondike and The Last Spike, among many others, along with a dozen honorary degrees. Throughout it all, Berton was larger than life: full of verve and ideas, he approached everything he did with passion, humour, and an insatiable curiosity. He loved controversy and being the centre of attention, and provoked national debate on subjects as wide-ranging as religion and marijuana use. A major voice of Canadian nationalism at the dawn of globalization, he made Canadians take interest in their own history and become proud of it. But he had his critics too, and some considered him egocentric and mean-spirited. Now, with the same meticulous research and storytelling skill that earned him wide critical acclaim for The Spinster and the Prophet, Brian McKillop traces Pierre Berton’s remarkable life, with special emphasis on his early days and his rise to prominence. The result is a comprehensive, vivid portrait of the life and work of one of our most celebrated national figures.

Smug Minority

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ISBN 13 : 9780771013959
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Inequality in Canada

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228005965
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Inequality in Canada by : Eric W. Sager

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780028633787
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature written by Laurie E. Rozakis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at American authors from Washington Irving to John Updike and provides brief biographical sketches, excerpts and summaries of major works, and explanations of major literary movements

The Joy of Writing

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Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385673566
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Joy of Writing written by Pierre Berton and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his fifty years as an award-winning journalist and author of some of the finest books on Canadian history, Pierre Berton has written a witty and practical guide for writers. With almost every book a bestseller, clearly this writer knows what it takes to succeed in the publishing world. From the all-important rule of “knowing your audience” and other essential writing tips to down-to-earth advice on dealing with agents, publishers, and editors, The Joy of Writing covers every aspect of non-fiction writing and includes interviews with twenty-seven of Canada’s leading writers. Illustrated with more than thirty manuscript pages from Pierre Berton’s own works. Includes Interviews With: Alex Barris • Ted Barris • Jack Batten • Fred Bodsworth • June Callwood • Stevie Cameron • Robert Collins • Elaine Dewar • Will Ferguson • Trent Frayne • Bob Fulford • Charlotte Gray • Richard Gwyn • Stephen Kimber • Ken McGoogan • Roy McGregor • Linda McQuaig • Farley Mowat • Knowlton Nash • Peter Newman • Stephanie Nolen • John Sawatsky • Russell Smith • Edna Staebler • Walter Stewart • Betty Jane Wylie • Jan Wong

Canada's 1960s

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802099548
Total Pages : 649 pages
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Download or read book Canada's 1960s written by Bryan D. Palmer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the major movements and personalities of the time, as well as the lasting influence of the period, Canada's 1960s examines the legacy of this rebellious decade's impact on contemporary notions of Canadian identity.

Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199609128
Total Pages : 718 pages
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Book Synopsis Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations by : Susan Ratcliffe

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Canadian Author and Bookman and Canadian Poetry

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
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A Writer's Life

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Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 0771089295
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A Writer's Life written by The Writers' Trust of Canada and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who loves great literature -- or aspires to write it -- this is an essential collection, full of insight, wisdom, humour, and candour from Canada's most important and beloved literary figures. For the past twenty-five years, the Writers' Trust of Canada's annual lecture series, the Margaret Laurence Memorial Lecture, has invited some of Canada's most prominent authors to discuss the theme of "A Writer's Life" in front of their peers. Hugh MacLennan, Mavis Gallant, Timothy Findley, W.O. Mitchell, Pierre Berton, P.K. Page, Dorothy Livesay, Alistair MacLeod, and Margaret Atwood, among others, have shared the personal challenges they faced in forging their own paths as writers, at a time when such a career was still unusual in this country. Intimate, frank, and revealing in tone, their lectures -- collected for the first time in celebration of the series' twenty-fifth anniversary -- provide a unique account of a period when a national writing community was just being formed, and give us unprecedented access to the heroes and heroines of Canadian literature as they share their insights into their work, the profession of writing, the growing canon of our literature, and the cultural history of our country.

Peter Gzowski

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Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770705392
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)

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Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019105366X
Total Pages : 2642 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Perspectives on Women in the 1980s

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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887550754
Total Pages : 293 pages
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Download or read book Perspectives on Women in the 1980s written by Joan Turner and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are now fifteen years into the second wave of feminism, and public opinion polls show majority support for all the basic issues raised by the women’s movement. This collection of articles focuses on strategies and directions for the movement that will enable all women to benefit from changing attitudes in the 1980s.

Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199567069
Total Pages : 588 pages
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Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject written by Susan Ratcliffe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 7,000 quotations arranged by subject for easy look-up. Nearly 600 subjects covered, from Memory and Humour to Television and Weddings.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

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Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1602 pages
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Ephesians

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Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0836197968
Total Pages : 367 pages
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Download or read book Ephesians written by Thomas Yoder Neufeld and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-02-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ephesians presents readers with a volatile mix of assurance, exhilarating worship, and forceful exhortation—a bracing challenge to today’s church. The letter convinces Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld that the grace-gift of faithfulness leads to worship. Power, peace, and new creation are gifts of grace equipping the church to participate in God’s reconciling embrace. This commentary guides readers to a life-changing encounter with Ephesians, probing interpretations, refreshing Christian teaching, and calling everyone to “walk” accordingly, with a song in heart and throat.

Canadian Author & Bookman

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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