Research Catalog

Title

Bastards and boneheads : Canada's glorious leaders, past and present / Will Ferguson.

Author

Ferguson, Will

Publication

Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, c1999.

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Description

326 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Bastards and boneheads

Subject

• Canadian wit and humor
• Canada > History > Humor
• Canada > Politics and government > Humor

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Humor

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part I. The Paths of Glory: Canada's Formative Years. 1. Death and winter: lessons from St. Croix Island. -- 2. Exile: the Acadian diaspora. -- 3. Conquest: the Plains of Abraham. -- 4. Invasion: the War of 1812. -- 5. Rebel hordes: the Armed Uprisings of 1837. -- 6. The Ghost of Radical Jack: Responsible Government (and other oxymorons). -- 7. Spiked drinks: John A. Macdonald and the invention of Canada. -- 8. Heroes and madmen: the many rebellions of Louis Riel.
• Part II. Gristle into Bone: Canada in the Twentieth Century. 9. Hyenas in petticoats: the fight for women's rights. -- 10. Draft dodgers: the conscription crises. -- 11. Apartheid: the politics of treaty-making. -- 12. Holocausts: Canada's contribution to the genocide. -- 13. Refugee camps: the sage of the Japanese Canadians. -- 14. The quiet revolution: Quebec catches up. -- 15. The October crisis: the revolution turns noisy. -- 16. The Oka Crisis: the Mohawk resistance of 1990. -- 17. Ten lost years: the decade of discord.
• Part III. Boneheads on Parade: a Survey of Canadian Prime Ministers, Past and Present. 18. More sorry, misguided attempts at evaluation (and why mine is still the best ever). -- 19. John A. to Jean C.: an overview. -- 20. Ranking our Prime Ministers, from best to Mulroney.

ISBN

1550547372 :

LCCN

cn^99910604^

OCLC

44883908

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library