New ebooks From Canadian Indies
Description
Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, BertWhyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldierduring the Second World War, and a press correspondent in Beijing andMoscow. But Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a greatyarn. In Champagne and Meatballs we meet a cigar-smoking roguewho was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a political meeting. Hisstories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combat andcamaraderie at the front lines in the Second World War, and ofsurviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compelling reading.
Contributor Notes
Larry Hannant is a Canadian historian specializing intwentieth-century political dissent. He is the author of TheInfernal Machine: Investigating the Loyalty of Canada’sCitizens and the editor of The Politics of Passion: NormanBethune’s Writing and Art, which won the Robert S. KennyPrize in Left/Labour Studies. He also researched and co-wrote afeature-length documentary film on the Doukhobors, The SpiritWrestlers, which was broadcast on History Television. He currentlyteaches at Camosun College and the University of Victoria.
