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By KATE MALLOY,
BEA VONGDOUANGCHANH,
JESSICA BRUNO,
CHRIS PLECASH,
AND LAURA RYCKEWAERT
Author of Nation Maker: Sir John
A. Macdonald: His Life, Our
Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891:
“Sir John A. was determined we wouldn’t become Americans, that was his life-long mission. We were bloody lucky. Not just as a politician, but as a statesman, John A.
Macdonald was up there with Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Disraeli, the two best politicians in the 19th century, and here he was running a runty little colony, a backwards colony, which is all we were then, with no distinction to it. And yet he was as good as anybody in the world among democratic politicians.”
Author of Tommy Douglas:
“Tommy Douglas is an extremely crucial figure in the history and in the concepts that underlie our healthcare system. He was part of the social democratic movement in Canada which was embodied, politically, by the CCF and which subsequently became embodied by the NDP.
Things that that movement imagined, like universal health care, a strong universal system of worker protection legislation, like old age pensions, were at the start of the 20th century unheard of in Canada. When I say he was a visionary, the specifics of it are that he imagined things that simply did not exist in society during the era into which he was born, but many of which had come into existence by the end of his life and for which much of the credit must accrue to the social democratic movement.”
Author of Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner:
“Turner had a rough ride as Liberal leader in the 1980s and one of the things that fascinated me was the role of the leader’s image in determining their success in the modern federal electoral process and in the federal policy political process more generally. One of the things that
Turner had problems with in that period was his television image and so to me it’s an interesting study on the role of the media in national politics, especially since back in the
1960s he was considered to be quite a media friendly figure. He was seen to be very dashing and the wrath against him then was that he was all style and no substance.”
Author of When The Gods Changed:
The Death of Liberal Canada:
“In three words or less, what
Ignatieff did wrong was think that he could become a politician. There’s a an adversary role between intellectuals and politicians because intellectuals spend their lives seeking truth and politicians spend their lives seeking power and those lines don’t intersect and for him to think that after spending his whole life writing and in intellectual pursuit, that suddenly he could become a leader of a party that had been going downhill, and for him to have the nerve or the self-confidence to walk into that and reverse it, was unrealistic and really self-defeating.”
Author of Boy From Nowhere: A
Life in Ninety-One Countries:
“Well, I think 27 years at
Maclean’s, and I really had the whole country’s [attention] and I always run into people at cocktail parties and on airplanes and they say, ‘Boy, do I ever miss your column,’ and say to them, ‘If you think you miss my column, you should talk to my bank manager.’”
Author of Oliver’s Twist: The Life and Times of an Unapologetic
Newshound:
“I don’t feel like an icon. I just work hard. The difficulty I had with writing it was deciding how candid I should be.”
Author of Beyond Question
Period, or What Really Goes On
In Ottawa:
“I was amazed quite often at how interested Canadians were about what MPs actually did and what went on in
Ottawa, but there was not a lot of information…They often took their cues from Question Period which sometimes is not very flattering for MPs and because it’s 45 minutes out of everyday,
I thought it would be useful to paint a picture for Canadians about what an MP actually does and how Ottawa is governed… and to try to give it a more balanced perspective.”
Author of The Right Balance:
Canada’s Conservative Tradition:
“You hear the word ‘conservative’ used in the most pejorative ways. ‘Conservative’ forces in
Iran support stoning as an appropriate punishment for women.
‘Conservative’ forces in China think the internet should be constrained. ‘Conservative’ forces in central America aren’t sure about the democratic experiment. Well, that’s not my sense of what the word ‘conservative’ means. There’s a Canadian sense about what the word ‘conservative’ means that comes from our history and our geography and our demographics.”
Author of The Fog of War:
Censorship of Canada’s Media in
World War Two:
“It’s the only book on the subject. It says a lot about how
Canadian news was manipulated in a time of crisis, and how journalists were restricted in a time of total war. The book also examines the national unity problem during the war and I talk pretty frankly about the fascist element in the Quebec press during the war. It’s also a good read. It’s got spies, submarines, secret weapons, real heroes and villains.”
Author of The Blaikie Report:
An Insider’s Look At Faith and
Politics:
“The book reminds people of an earlier and still present connection between faith and politics on the left and, to say,
‘Look, I know you might get the impression that there’s only one connection between religion and politics, in particular, between Christianity and politics, and that’s conservatism, or the right wing of the political spectrum, but actually it’s not true. There’s another way of looking at the biblical tradition which generates a left-wing politics.’”
Author of Allah, Liberty and Love:
The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom:
“Islam is what Muslims make it. Islamotribalists may decree their interpretations as the only true ones, but their arrogance reaches the Qur’an’s unambiguous reminder that God alone has the full truth, and it dupes too many of us into believing that just one interpretation can hold water. For both reasons, reinterpretation is a noble endeavour—all the more when certain verses are cited to service killing sprees.”
Author of Competing
Religious Ideologies in Canadian
Public Life:
“The book looks closely at a relatively neglected area, which is the impact that competing religious ideologies are having upon politics and public life in
Canada. Specifically, I examine the competition between religious progressives and conservatives for power and influence.
This is not merely a topic of casual interest because religious faith informs political decisions about the division of wealth in our society, education and race relations, immigration, respect for democracy, foreign policy, and environmental issues, to name just a few. The book will be of particular interest to anyone who is elected or working in politics, to anyone who watches public policy or teaches about it and certainly to people of religious faith.”

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Author of The Long Way Back:
Afghanistan’s Quest for Peace:
“I thought it was a terribly important story, not just for
Canada, and our contribution was really outsized in many ways, but for the whole international community because so much was invested by so many countries and so much more obviously by the Afghans themselves—hope, determination, resources, lives.
I felt that story deserved to be told. That there have been more achievements than most readers knew, and that the real security challenge, the real key to bringing peace is an enduring settlement between Afghanistan and Pakistan as state and as a society.”
Co-author along with Abdallah
Daar, of The Grandest Challenge:
Taking Life-Saving Science from
Lab to Village:
“I was motivated to write the book because I was leading the bioethics centre, interested in issues like equity, met Abdallah and he and others helped open my eyes to the fact that the world is a very unequal place. What makes it right that a woman in Africa is more than 100 times likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth compared to my own wife? What makes it fair that a child in Africa is more than 10 times as likely to die under the age of five compared to my own kids? It’s not right, it’s not fair, and that’s how I got into it, through an ethical lens. Abdallah had a much more personal story.”
Author of The Moral Lives of Israelis: Reinventing the Dream State:
“The book came up first around my father’s death. He left this very cryptic note, ‘Take care of my little country,’ it said. The truth is that when I got it from the male nurse there, I was rather put off because, ‘Take care of my little country’ doesn’t mean take care of my wife, or my children, or my family, and it was a difficult death.
It took me probably a year to come around to understand what that note meant. What I think it meant is it says something about that generation of Israelis, which had identified with the country in such a way that there was actually no difference between them and the country. This was a generation whose lives straddled basically between the British mandate and an independent state. They were so identified with that struggle and emancipation that in my mind now they’re comparable to the
Homeric heroes. … But this was his family, in the sort of much larger way than is easy for the immediate family to accept.”
Author of The Savage War: The
Untold Battles of Afghanistan:
“I’m hoping that folks around town take stock of the honesty with which I’ve tried to convey the story to them, and that they take some lessons from our involvement in Afghanistan and don’t do the politically expedient thing, which is to forget about what happened, to close the book and move on without actually
thinking about our relationship with NATO, without actually thinking about how DND, DFAIT, and CIDA were often at war with one another, without thinking about how shameful it was, as far as I was concerned, for the debate to drag on for as long as it did to get life-saving helicopters into Afghanistan. It took 18 months to do that and guys were dying on the roads. I really hope that folks will just read it and take stock of that, and remember these things when we get involved in future conflicts.”
Author of Frontier Justice: The
Global Refugee Crisis and What To
Do About It:
“Policy-makers are going to be dealing with asylum issues, whether they like it or not. The issue is how we can do this in a way that is humane to real refugees. We live in a world of border control, so I try to outline a workable framework in which we can respect the rights of people seeking asylum in a realistic way.”
Author of Captivity: 118 Days in
Iraq and The Struggle For a World
Without War:
“I would love for it to be read by people who are open to having another look at things, who were maybe like me at one time, who I believed in violence and I believed in the nobility of the United States, and its bringing civilization and democracy to the world and who may be open to looking at things a little differently.”
Author of Damned Nations: Greed,
Guns, Armies and Aid:
“I hope that my book is important and I hope that what it does more than anything else is challenge assumptions around the factors that lead to war and what we’re doing, and what is and what isn’t working and how we might do things differently. I hope, ultimately, that it starts a conversation, even conversations around the dinner table, conversations in classrooms that people will turn around and say whether they agree with it or don’t agree with it. At least we’re thinking of these issues and that’s a huge step forward.”
Author of Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone:
“I’m always trying to look at the issue globally, so paying attention to countries that may not be on the radar yet. I do think the countries that I had been looking at before are actually pretty important countries right now, Yemen and Somalia in particular. I think it’s worth watching various areas or North Africa in particular. I also hope that we re-think the way that we look at terrorism, in general, so that we don’t always look at the problems of various failed states through the lens of terrorism. I think what we have to look at is building these countries and helping these countries find stability. Personally, I hope that’s where I can help, and where I can expand this beat as well. It will move beyond just issues of national security to just greater foreign issues as well.”
Author of For Your Tomorrow: The
Way of An Unlikely Soldier :
“I’m not asking that people agree or disagree with our military role. I’m showing you one man’s story, what he did, why he did it, and I leave it up to the readers to form their own judgments.”
Author of Room For All of Us:
Surprising Stories of Loss and
Transformation:
“Yes, there are so many people and so many stories, but what I
did specifically is I chose people who were part of the same kind of person, which is me. We nine of us are like the colours in a prism. The prism is one, but then you look at it and you see these colours reflect. We share so much, we share having lost everything, and having come to the country not of our choice, but this is where we were thrown, sometimes literally.
“When you don’t have a choice and you come here, you have to make do with what the country is, and Canada is a very interesting country to come to.
It behaves towards us with what
I characterized and experienced as benevolent neglect, which means that people are kind.
They don’t try to hurt you in any way, but they just let you be.
Nobody’s going to get in your way and nobody’s going to stack the odds against you, and I think that’s what’s interesting with these people.”
one. Whether you’re looking at it from a financial point of view, a climate point of view, or an energy security point of view, the track we’re on is failing and it’s not failing at the periphery—it’s failing at the core. This idea of limitless cheap energy fed by abundant fossil fuels creating a financial system of limitless growth—that whole mechanism is failing on its own merits and is exhausting the biosphere’s capacity to provide for all of us in the long term.”
Author with Mark Leiren-Young, of
This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge:
“Policy makers in Canada are underestimating the capacity of Canadians to rise to this challenge. The fact that the last two years were the first years in human history where the new investment in renewable energy exceeded the combined investment globally in coal, oil, and nuclear, is an incredible sign that we’re living at a tipping point and we can be at the forefront of that shift.”
The Leap: How To Survive and
Thrive in the Sustainable Economy:
“The Leap is a fundamental transformation from an unsustainable track to a sustainable
Author of Willful Blindness: Why We
Ignore the Obvious At Our Peril:
“I think leaders should read it, whether it’s political or business leaders, because of the pitfalls of power and how hard it is really to know what’s going on. I think even private individuals should read it because it’s very much about how do we miss what’s going on in our lives, not just at work, but at home.
“I think one of things that’s interesting, and what makes it a little challenging, is that although it talks about business it’s really about all of us as humans, and in our private and our professional lives.”
Co-author of Selected: Why Some
People Lead, Why Others Follow and Why It Matters:
“We were disappointed with the leadership literature. I mean,
[there are] millions of publications on leadership, but not really asking the fundamental questions as to why leadership? They have addressed in the literature in various spaces, but not within one overall arching theory, and that’s what we’ve presented, evolution leadership theory.” news@hilltimes.com
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1. Against Orthodoxy: Studies in Nationalism, edited by Trevor W. Harrison and Slobodan Drakulic UBC
Press, 386 pp., $90.
2. Allah, Liberty & Love: The Courage To Reconcile
Faith and Freedom, by Irshad Manji, Random House
Canada, 293 pp., $29.95.
3. Among The Truthers: A Journey Into The Growing
Conspiracist Underground of 9/11 Truthers, Birthers,
Armageddonites, Vaccine Hysterics, Hollywood
Know-Nothings and Internet Addicts , by Jonathan Kay,
Harper Collins Canada, 368 pp., $25.99.
4. Auditing Canadian Democracy, edited by William
Cross, UBC Press, 272 pp., $32.95.
5. A Season In Hell: My 130 Days in the Sahara With Al
Qaeda, Harper Collins Canada, by Robert Fowler, 320 pp. $32.99.
6. Beyond the Nation? Immigrants’ Local Lives in
Transnational Cultures, edited by Alexander Freund,
University of Toronto Press, 320 pp., $65.
7. The Blaikie Report: An Insider’s Look At Faith And
Politics, by Bill Blaikie, United Church Publishing House,
264 pp., $21.95.
8. Blue-Green Province: The Environment and the
Political Economy of Ontario, by Mark S. Winfield, UBC
Press, 280 pp., $85.
9. Boy From Nowhere: A Life In Ninety-One Countries, by Allan Fotheringham, Dundurn, 272 pp., $32.
10. The Canadian Federal Election of 2011, edited by Jon
H. Pammett and Christopher Dornan, Dundurn, 366 pp.
$36.99
11. Captivity: 118 Days in Iraq And The Struggle For A World
Without War, by James Loney, Knopf Canada, 406 pp., $32.
12.
Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets
Children, by Joel Balkan, Penguin Canada, 288 pp., $26.
13. Citizens Adrift: The Democratic Disengagement of Young
Canadians, by Paul Howe, UBC Press, 360 pp., $34.95.
14. Code Politics: Campaigns and Cultures on the Canadian
Prairies, by Jared J. Wesley, UBC Press, 320 pp., $85.
15. Cold War Soldier: Life on the Front Lines of the Cold
War , by Terry ‘Stoney’ Burke, Dundurn, 182 pp., $22.95.
16. Come From The Shadows: The Long and Lonely
Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan, by Terry Galvin,
Douglas & McIntyre, 256 pp., $29.95.
17. Conflict in Caledonia: Aboriginal Land Rights and the
Rule of Law, by Laura DeVries, UBC Press, 224 pp., $85.
18. Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies & Aid, by Samantha
Nutt, Signal McClelland & Stewart, 228 pp., $29.99.
19. Decade of Fear: Reporting From Terrorism’s Grey Zone , by Michelle Shephard, Douglas & McIntyre, 271 pp., $32.95.
20. Dependent America? How Canada and Mexico
Construct U.S. Power, by Stephen Clarkson and Matto
Mildenberger, University of Toronto Press, 352 pp., $34.95.
21. The Destiny of Canada: Macdonald, Laurier, and the Election of 1891 , by Christopher Pennington, Allen
Lane Canada, 336 pp., $34.
22. Diplomacy in The Digital Age: Essays in Honour of
Ambassador Allan Gotlieb, edited by Janice Gross Stein, with
Colin Robertson, Signal McClelland & Stewart, 278 pp., $29.99.
23. Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John
Napier Turner, by Paul Litt, UBC Press, 525 pp., $39.95.
24. Engendering Migrant Health: Canadian Perspectives, edited by Denise L. Spitzer, University of Toronto Press, 312 pp., $29.95.
25. The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global
Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the
Environment, by David R. Boyd, UBC Press, 352 pp., $95.
26. Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States, edited by David Rayside and Clyde
Wilcox, UBC Press, 480 pp., $90.
27. Fearmonger: Stephen Harper’s Tough-on-Crime Agenda, by Paula Mallea, James Lorimer & Company, 232 pp., $24.95.
28. Feminist Ethics and Social Politics: Towards a New
Global Political Economy of Care, edited by Rianne
Mahon and Fiona Robinson, UBC Press, $85.
29. Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change, by William Marsden, Random House of Canada, 256 pp., $29.95.
30. The Freedom of Security: Governing Canada in the Age of
Counter-Terrorism, by Colleen Bell, UBC Press, 216 pp., $85.
31. The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada’s Media in World
War Two, by Mark Bourrie, Douglas & McIntrye, 336 pp., $32.95.
32. Foreign Ownership of Canadian Industry: Third Edition , by A.E. Safarian, University of Toronto Press, 390 pp., $38.95.
33. For Your Tomorrow: The Way Of An Unlikely Soldier, by
Melanie Murray, Random House Canada, 253 pp., $29.95.
34. From Cold War to New Millennium: The History of the Royal Canadian Regiment, 1953-2008, by
Colonel Bernd Horn, Dundurn, 496 pp., $39.95.
35. Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis And What To Do
About It, by Andy Lamey, Doubleday Canada, 408 pp., $34.95.
36. The Fundamental Things Apply: A Memoir, by Roy
MacLaren, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 285 pp., $39.95.
37. Gambling for Profit: Lotteries, Gaming Machines, and Casinos in Cross-National Focus, by Kerry G.E.
Chambers, University of Toronto Press, 320 pp., $60.
75. Principles of Tsawalk: An Indigenous Approach to Global
Crisis, by E. Richard Atleo/Umeek, UBC Press, 224 pp., $85.
76. Property, Territory, Globalization: Struggles Over
Autonomy, edited by William D. Coleman, UBC Press,
288 pp., $85.
77. Pulpit and Politics: Competing Religious Ideologies in Canadian Public Life, by Dennis Gruending, Kingsley
Publishing, 238 pp., $23.
78. Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of
Modern Canada, by Donica Belisle, UBC Press, 320 pp., $85.
79.
The Right Balance: Canada’s Conservative Tradition, by Hugh Segal, Douglas & McIntyre, 249 pp., $32.95.
80. Room For All Of Us: Surprising Stories of Loss and Transformation, by Adrienne Clarkson, Allen Lane
Canada, 244 pp., $35.
38. Ghost Dancing With Colonialism: Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of
Canada, by Grace Li Xiu Woo, UBC Press, 281 pp., $85.
39. The Golden Age of Liberalism: A Portrait of Roméo LeBlanc, by Naomi E.S. Griffiths, foreword by Jean Chrétien, pp. 376, $35.
40. The Grandest Challenge: Taking Life-Saving Science from Lab to Village, by Dr. Abdallah Daar and Dr. Peter
Singer, Doubleday Canada, 296 pp., $32.95.
41. Grassroots Liberals: Organizing for Local and
National Politics, by Royce Koop, UBC Press, 228 pp., $85.
42. Health Care in Canada: A Citizen’s Guide to Policy and Politics, by Katherine Fierlbeck, University of Toronto
Press, 400 pp., $37.95.
43. How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic
Folly—And The Stark Choices Ahead, by Dambisa
Moyo, Douglas & McIntyre, 226 pp., $29.95.
44. How We Stopped Loving the Bomb: An Insider’s
Account of The World on The Brink of Banning
Nuclear Arms, by Douglas Roche, with a foreword by
Roméo Dallaire, Lorimer, 205 pp., $22.95.
45. Human Rights: The Commons and the Collective, by
Laura Westra, UBC Press, 320 pp., $90.
46. Identity Politics in the Public Realm: Bringing
Institutions Back In, edited by Avigail Eisenberg and
Will Kymllicka, UBC Press, 288 pp. $85.
47. Imaginary Line: Life On An Unfinished Border, by
Jacques Poitras, Goose Lane, 341 pp., $19.95.
48. Immigration Dialectic: Imagining Community,
Economy, and Nation, by Harald Bauder, University of
Toronto Press, 336 pp., $35.
49. In Defence of Principles: NGOs and Human Rights in
Canada, by Andrew S. Thompson, UBC Press, 224 pp., $85 .
50. The Information Front: The Canadian Army and
News Management During the Second World War, by Timothy Balzer, UBC Press, 272 pp., $32.95.
57. The Media Gaze: Representations of Diversities in
Canada, by Augie Fleras, UBC Press, 288 pp., $95.
58.
Mighty Judgment: How The Supreme Court of Canada
Runs Your Life, by Philip Slayton, Penguin Canada, 210 pp., $32.
59. Money, Politics, and Democracy: Canada’s Party
Finance Reforms, edited by Lisa Young and Harold J.
Jansen, 236 pp., $90.
60. Narratives of Citizenship: Indigenous and Diasporic
Peoples Unsettles the Nation-State, edited by Aloys
N.M. Fleischmann, Nancy Van Styvendale and Cody
McCarroll, the University of Alberta Press, 358 pp., $39.95.
61. Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our
Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891, by Richard Gwyn,
Random House Canada, 676 pp., $37.
62. The Natural City: Re-envisioning the Built Environment, edited by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Stephen Bede Scharper,
University of Toronto Press, 356 pp., $35.
63. The New African Disapora in Vancouver: Migration,
Exclusion, and Belonging, by Gillian Creese, University of Toronto Press, 288 pp., $27.95.
64. Not Drowning But Waving: Women, Feminism, and the Liberal Arts, edited by Susan Brown, Jeanne Perreault,
Jo-Ann Wallace, and Heather Zwicker, The University of
Alberta Press, 472 pp., $39.95.
65. Offshore Petroleum Politics: Regulations and Risk in the Scotian Basin, by Peter Clancy, UBC Press, 464 pp., $95.
66. Oliver’s Twist: The Life & Times of an Unapologetic
Newshound, by Craig Oliver, Penguin, 352 pp., $34.
67. On Oligarchy: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics, edited by David Edward Tabachnick and Toivo Koivukoski,
University of Toronto Press, 240 pp., $27.95.
68. Oral History on Trial: Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts, by Bruce Granville Miller, UBC Press, 212 pp., $85.
81. The Savage War: The Untold Battles of Afghanistan , by Murray Brewster, Wiley, 320 pp., $34.95.
82. The Secret of the Crown: Canada’s Affair With
Royalty, by John Fraser, Anansi, 288 pp., $29.95.
83. The Seduction of Ethics: Transforming the Social
Sciences, by Will C. van den Hoonaard, 392 pp., $32.95.
84. Selected: Why Some People Lead, Why Others Follow, and Why It Matters, by Mark Van Vugt and Anjana Ahuja,
Random House Canada, 262 pp., $32.
85.
Social Perspective: The Missing Element in Mental
Health Practice, by Richard U’Ren, University of Toronto
Press, 224 pp., $45.
86. Social Support, Health, and Illness: A Complicated
Relationship, by Ranjan Roy, University of Toronto Press,
192 pp., $50.
87. The Study of Politics: A Short Survey of Core Approaches, by Greg Pyrcz, University of Toronto Press, 224 pp., $32.95.
88. The Theory and Practice of Political Law, by Gregory
Tardi, Carswell, 450 pp., $210.
89. The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures: Celebrating 50
Years, by Adam Gopnik, Anansi, 288 pp., $22.95.
90. Thinking Government: Public Administration and
Politics in Canada, Third Edition, by David Johnston,
University of Toronto Press, 448 pp., $69.95.
91. This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge, by Tzeporah Berman with Mark Leiren-Young, Knopf Canada,
348 pp., $32.
51. King: A Life Guided by The Hand of Destiny, by Allan
Levine, Douglas & McIntyre, 515 pp., $36.95.
52. The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau, the Gang of Eight, and the Fight for Canada, by Ron Graham, Allen Lane
Canada, 323 pp., $34.
53. The Leap: How To Survive And Thrive In The Sustainable
Economy, by Chris Turner, Random House Canada, 360 pp., $29.95.
54. The Long Way Back: Afghanistan’s Quest For Peace, by Chris Alexander, Harper Collins, 304 pp., $32.99.
55.
Mafia Inc.: The Long Bloody Reign of Canada’s
Sicilian Clan , by André Cédilot and André Noël, Random
House Canada, 533 pp., $ 32.95.
56.
The Man in Blue Pyjamas: A Prison Memoir, by
Jalal Barzanji, translator Sabah A. Salih, foreword by John
Ralston Saul, University of Alberta Press, 288 pp., $24.95.
69.
Orienting Canada: Race, Empire, and the Transpacific, by John Price, UBC Press, 464 pp., $85.
70. The Perils of Identity: Group Rights and the Politics of Intragroup Difference, by Caroline Dick, UBC Press,
272 pp. $90.
71. Perverse Cities: Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy, and
Urban Sprawl, by Pamela Blais, UBC Press, 294 pp., $39.95.
72. Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests: Tenure, Stumpage Fees, and Forest Practices, by Martin K. Luckert, David Haley, and George Hoberg,
UBC Press, 224 pp., $85.
73. Policy Paradigms, Transnationalism, and Domestic
Politics, edited by Grace Skogstad, University of Toronto
Press, 288 pp., $29.95.
74. The Politics of Race: Canada, the United States, and Australia, Second Edition, by Jill Vickers and
Annette Isaac, University of Toronto Press, 304 pp., $35.
92. Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 2: The Extreme
Moderate, 1858-1868, by David A. Wilson, 512 pp., $39.95.
93. Tommy Douglas, by Vincent Lam, Penguin Canada,
235 pp., $26.
94. Trudeau Transformed: 1944-1965: The Shaping of a Statesman , translated by George Tombs, by Max and
Monique Nemni, McClelland & Stewart, 534 pp., $32.99.
95. Under an Afghan Sky: A Memoir of Captivity, by
Mellisa Fung, HarperCollins, 336 pp., $25.99.
96. Us, Them, and Others: Pluralism and National Identity in Diverse Societies, by Elke Winter, University of
Toronto Press, 288 pp., $29.95.
97.
Voluntary Sector Organization and the State: Building
New Relations, by Rachel Laforest, UBC Press, 144 pp., $85.
98. When the Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada, by Peter C. Newman, Random House, 304 pp., $32.95.
99. Wilfrid Laurier, by André Pratte, Penguin Canada,
221 pp., $26.
100. Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at
Our Peril, by Margaret Heffernan, Doubleday Canada,
294 pp., $32.95.
—Compiled by Kate Malloy, editor of The Hill Times
1. Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life,
Our Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891, by Richard
Gwyn, Random House Canada, 676 pp., $37.
2. King: A Life Guided by The Hand of Destiny, by
Allan Levine, Douglas & McIntyre, 515 pp., $36.95.
3. Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies & Aid, by
Samantha Nutt, Signal McClelland & Stewart, 228 pp., $29.99.
4. Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate
Change, by William Marsden, Random House of
Canada, 256 pp., $85.
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