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Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist(Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH)

Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist(Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH)


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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 Beijingand Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would bemistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a greatyarn. In Champagne and Meatballs — a memoir written notlong before his death in Moscow in 1984 — we meet a cigar-smokingrogue who was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a politicalmeeting. His stories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combatand camaraderie at the front lines in Second World War, and ofsurviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compellingreading. The manuscript of Champagne and Meatballs was brought tolight and edited by historian Larry Hannant, who has written afascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the text. Brash,irreverent, informative, and entertaining, Whyte's tale ishistory and biography accompanied by a wink of his eye — the leftone, of course.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction by Larry Hannant Chapter 1. Early Years Chapter 2. The 1930s Chapter 3. The War Chapter 4. Postwar Years Chapter 5. Letters from China, with a foreword by Monica Whyte Appendix Notes Index

About the Author :
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.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781926836089
  • Publisher: Au Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Au Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: Adventures of a Canadian Communist
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1926836081
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
  • Weight: 500 gr


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