Canada and Other Matters of Opinion

✍ Scribed by Murphy, Rex

• Book ID: 108115723
• Publisher: Doubleday Canada
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 333 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307372482

✦ Synopsis

A cornucopia of comment from Canada's most opinionated man -- a man seen, read, and listened to by millions of Canadians each week.

Canada's most distinctive commentator presents his fearless and thought-provoking views on a head-spinning range of subjects, from Dr. Johnson's greatness to Bono's gratingness, from doubts about Obama to utter belief in Don Cherry, from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's outstanding oeuvre to -- well, Pamela Anderson.

The topics are as eclectic and wide ranging as the intelligence that put them together. The perspective is thoroughly Canadian, and so are many of the recurring topics and themes: of our domestic politics and our military involvements abroad, of our national identity, of human rights and human decency. You'll find assessments of the reputations of Paul Martin, Conrad Black, Adrienne Clarkson, and Tim Hortons; tough but affectionate views of Newfoundland -- of course -- but also from Rex Murphy's constant travels across...