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Champagne and meatballs : adventures of a Canadian communist /
"Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let lefti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edmonton :
AU Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Working Canadians (Edmonton, Alta.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a great yarn. In Champagne and Meatballs -- a memoir written not long before his death in Moscow in 1984 -- we meet a cigar-smoking rogue who was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a political meeting. His stories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combat and camaraderie at the front lines in World War II, and of surviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compelling reading. The manuscript of Champagne and Meatballs was brought to light and edited by historian Larry Hannant, who has written a fascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the text. Brash, irreverent, informative, and entertaining, Whyte's tale is history and biography accompanied by a wink of his eye -- the left one, of course."--Publisher's description |
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| Notas: | Publisher's Web site: http://www.aupress.ca. "Canadian Committee on Labour History." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical endnotes and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781926836096 192683609X 9781459340268 1459340264 9781926836348 1926836340 128297789X 9781282977891 |
| ISSN: | 1925-184X |