The remarkable memoir of growing up in a communist family at the height of the Cold War by the late esteemed historian, public intellectual, and political activist James Laxer, the bestselling author of Staking Claims to a Continent, now reissued in a handsome A List edition.
| Autor: | Laxer James |
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| ISBN: | 9781487006761 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Ingram Publishers Services |
| Veröffentlicht: | 09.05.2019 |
| Untertitel: | A Boyhood in the Age of McCarthyism |
| Schlagworte: | Autobiography: general Autobiography: historical, political & military Autobiography: historical, political and military BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists Memoirs POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy Political activism Political activism / Political engagement Political leaders & leadership Political leaders and leadership SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services Social welfare & social services Social welfare and social services |
JAMES LAXER (1941–2018) was the award-winning author of more than twenty-five books, including Staking Claims to a Continent; the #1 national bestseller Tecumseh & Brock: The War of 1812; Stalking an Elephant: My Discovery of America (published by the New Press in the United States as Discovering America); and The Border: Canada, the U.S., and Dispatches from the 49th Parallel. He was a professor of political science in the Department of Equity Studies at York University.