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The Loner
Proceedings of the Indo-US seminar on Longwall Mining Systems for Thick Seam Mining--Assessment of Progress and Needs, held at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, January 1986. No index; acidic paper. Waite (history emeritus, Dalhousie U.) offers three entertaining essays--first presented as the 1991 Joanne Goodman Lectures at the U. of Western Ontario--on the personal life of Canada's Depression Prime Minister. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Authentic Voice of Canada
A collection of speeches by Canada's eleventh prime minister following his emigration to England and appointment to the British House of Lords.
In Search of R.B. Bennett
No Canadian prime minister has a reputation as uncertain as that of R.B. Bennett (1870-1947). The Conservative party leader of the country during the worst years of the Great Depression, Bennett's fortune and ascension to the British House of Lords alienated him from the Canadian people during his lifetime, while his burial in England has kept him aloof from his country even in death. Writing a life of Bennett, who reportedly destroyed his correspondence every seven years, presents challenges for the biographer. Yet P.B. Waite shows that, while many details of Bennett's life may be unknown or disputed, his contributions to Canada are beyond doubt. Waite describes Bennett's bold initiatives, ...
Bennett
In this revised and updated version of his celebrated Bennett: The Rebel Who Challenged and Changed a Nation, Boyko looks at Bennett?s sometimes controversial and often misunderstood policies through a longer lens. He reveals that Bennett was less of an opportunistic politician attempting to curry popularity than a man who was following through on a life-long dedication to public service. Boyko argues that Bennett?s most notable achievements? unemployment insurance; minimum wage; fair-trade and anti-monopoly legislation; and the creation of the Bank of Canada and the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission? were consistent with the conservative economic and political beliefs he held throughout his life. He also explores the origins and hardening of those beliefs as he details Bennett?s birth into relative poverty in Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick, his stunning success as a corporate lawyer in Calgary, his years in politics, and his eventual retirement in England. Meticulously researched and brilliantly told, Bennett: The Rebel Who Challenged and Changed a Nation stands among other first-class biographies of this country?s political greats. --Publisher's description.
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The Wretched of Canada
"These are the voices of the people who suffered most in the Great Depression of the 1930s - the prairie farmers, the unemployed workers, the old, the sick, and the very young. They lived in shacks, patched their clothes, and went to bed hungry. Their lives were bleak and still. Even the ordinary escape-hatches of the radio, the newspaper, and liquor were closed for many of them. Theirs was life at the bottom, a single-minded struggle for survival, monotonous and dreary. Yet they were a humble, proud, and God-fearing folk. Perhaps Canadians at that time had too much discipline and individualism, or too little political sophistication to fight out against a whole economic and social system. T...
R.B. Bennett
In 1897, a young man from New Brunswick, R.B. Bennett (1970-1947), arrived in Calgary, penniless, to practice law. Thirty years later he left for Ottawa to assume the leadership of the Conservative party of Canada and eventually to serve as prime minister. Gray tells the story of those 30 years and the events that laid the foundations of Bennett's political and business careers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Loner
Proceedings of the Indo-US seminar on Longwall Mining Systems for Thick Seam Mining--Assessment of Progress and Needs, held at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, January 1986. No index; acidic paper. Waite (history emeritus, Dalhousie U.) offers three entertaining essays--first presented as the 1991 Joanne Goodman Lectures at the U. of Western Ontario--on the personal life of Canada's Depression Prime Minister. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Bennett
In the late 1920s, Canada's economy was showing all the signs of a full-fledged depression. Life savings were evaporating, unemployment was up, and exports were dramatically down. Riding on the popularity of his promise to "blast" Canada's way into world markets'and thus stop the economy's downward spiral'Richard Bedford Bennett defeated William Lyon Mackenzie King at the polls on July 28, 1930, and assumed the leadership of the country. Over the next five years, however, Bennett's name became synonymous with the worst of the depression'from Bennett buggies, to Bennett tea, to Bennett-burghs. Eighty years later, he is widely viewed as a difficult man, an ineffectual leader, and a politician ...
Battle for Bed-Stuy
In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roots in local activism and policy experiments.
