The Roar of the Twenties: Western Canadian Classics
Autor James Henry Grayen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2006
Decades after its release in 1975, James Gray's trademark energetic prose pulsates with the essence of this flamboyant era when idealism ran rampant across the prairies. Gray captures the:
Political frustrations of the farmers and the resulting turbulent Progressive movement and the resulting Wheat Pools
Radical idealism of the One Big Union, born after the Winnipeg General Strike in 1919
Gambling fever that struck not only Western Canadians, but all North Americans, spawned by those who put their paychecks in football pools, horse races, and the spectacular ups and downs of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Social and religious movements such as the birth of the United Church and the Ku Klux Klan.
James Gray has written of an exciting and flamboyant era, a time never to be forgotten.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1897252102
Pagini: 347
Dimensiuni: 145 x 216 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: FITZHENRY & WHITESIDE
Seria Western Canadian Classics
Notă biografică
James Gray, one of western Canada's finest social historians, was born in Whitemouth, Manitoba, in 1906. We worked for the Winnipeg Free Press for many years and went on to edit several other publications. In 1947, he relocated to Calgary, where he worked with the Home Oil Company for twenty years before retiring to embark on a new career as a historian. He passed away on 12 November 1998 in Calgary at the age of ninety-two.