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Stone country : an unauthorized history of Canada / George Bowering. - Toronto : Penguin Canada, 2003. - [8], 344 strony : ilustracje, mapy ; 24 cm.
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History is too important to be left to the historians. That's one lesson to be gleaned from novelist/poet George Bowering's history of Canada, Stone Country. While others have tried, and continue to attempt, to turn Confederation, the Meech Lake Accord, and the rise of Jean Chrétien into something other than the stuff of schoolkids' nightmares, it has taken a 67-year-old cynic with a novelist's insight (or vice versa) and sense of irony to turn these ingredients into a readable narrative. For starters, the author's manner is breezy and informal--at one point he writes that Prime Minister Mackenzie King "was browned off" that a group of Canadian anti-fascists used his grandfather's name for its battalion. Nor does Bowering feel any compunction about devising dialogue between policymakers to explain their wheeling and dealing, and his remarks on political players range from the catty to the cutting. He describes explorer James Wolfe as a "member of a military family despite having almost no chin" and calls Brian Mulroney "a smiling prime minister who held the door open [to the Americans] and said everything is for sale." [Penguin Canada, 2003]
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Bibliografia na stronach 329-331. Indeks.
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Tekst w języku angielskim.
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