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George Grant : a Biography.
George Grant's Lament for a Nation and Technology and Empire inspired a generation of Canadians. This readable biography revels in the life of a fascinating religious and political thinker, warts, gossip and all.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1996.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHRONOLOGY
- PREFACE
- 1 They'd prefer ice-cream
- 2 Work for King and Country
- 3 Willie's boy
- 4 Somebody might like me for myself
- 5 An ambitious little pragmatist
- 6 Mysterious forces within man
- 7 Take what you want said God
- 8 It was easy to lose courage
- 9 Exploring the universe
- 10 The solid basis of qualifications
- 11 Listening to Mozart
- I felt such love
- 12 Out of the shadows into truth
- 13 No satisfactory compromise was possible
- 14 Old and dirty and fat
- 15 The fifth column
- 16 Simone Weil
- 17 Lament
- 18 A lone wolf
- 19 Intimations of deprival
- 20 The botched and the bungled
- 21 Museum culture
- 22 Caught up in fates
- 23 Christ's care is for all
- 24 Out of Christian certainties
- 25 No great disaster
- Epilogue
- NOTES
- SOURCES
- Archival and interview sources
- Works mentioned in text or notes
- Selected secondary sources
- Bibliography of George Grant's publications
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- PHOTO CREDITS.