The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (703 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1771961112 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Praise for Elaine Dewar"Dewar is a keen observer of place and personality."—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dewar has been called one of Canada’s best muckrakers and Canada’s Rachel Carson.” She aspires to be a happy warrior for the public good.. Her first book, Cloak of Green, delved into the dark side of environmental politics and became an underground classic. Bones:Discovering the First Americans, an investigation of the science and pol
Its dynamic leader Jack McClelland worked with successive provincial and federal governments to help draft policies in the 1960s and 70s which ensured that Canadian stories would, for the first time in the nation’s history, be told and published by Canadians. It is the story not just of the demise of the country’s best independent publisher, it is about the threats, internal and otherwise, facing Canadian culture. The Handover is more than just a CanLit How-Done-It: it is essential reading for anyone interested in the telling of Canadian stories.. Until recently, McClelland and Stewart had been known as “The Canadian Publisher,” the country’s longest-lived and best independent press. When 75% of M&S was gifted amidst great fanfare to the University of Toronto on Canada Day 2000“To achieve the survival of one great Canadian institution,&rdqu