Remembering Peter Gzowski
Title | Remembering Peter Gzowski PDF eBook |
Author | Edna Barker |
Publisher | Douglas Gibson Books |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
When Peter Gzowski died in January 2002, millions of Canadians felt a sense of bereavement. The magical intimacy of radio had meant that for them Peter Gzowski was a friend, one they would miss. So they poured out their feelings with rare eloquence, in newspapers, magazines and on CBC Radio. This book collects the best of these tributes. The contributors include some of the most thoughtful and articulate people in the country: writers like Alice Munro and Jane Urquhart; fellow journalists like Robert Fulford; broadcasters like Michael Enright; and commentators like Stuart Maclean and Rex Murphy. Yet matching the contributions by the great and famous, the people who knew Peter Gzowski well, are the memories sent in by ordinary Canadians - from their tractors or fishing boats or their kitchens or offices - who felt that they knew him, and whose lives he had touched. By letter, by e-mail and in phone calls they sent in their memories, touching, affectionate, varied, often surprising and in summary forming a delightful tribute. The selection of the very best of these tributes was made by Peter's long-time editor Edna Barker, his partner Gill Howard, and by his colleague Shelagh Rogers. Royalties from this book will go to two of Peter Gzowski's favourite charities - Frontier College, to fight illiteracy, and Trent University's Peter Gzowski Scholarship, to encourage greater contact between Trent students and Canada's North.
Peter Gzowski
Title | Peter Gzowski PDF eBook |
Author | R.B. Fleming |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 513 |
Release | 2010-08-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1770705392 |
Born in 1934, Peter Gzowski covered most of the last half of the century as a journalist and interviewer. This biography, the most comprehensive and definitive yet published, is also a portrait of Canada during those decades, beginning with Gzowski's days at the University of Toronto's The Varsity in the mid 1950s, through his years as the youngest-ever managing editor of Maclean's in the 1960s and his tremendous success on CBC's Morningside in the 1980s and 1990s, and ending with his stint as a Globe and Mail columnist at the dawn of the 21st century and his death in January 2002. Gzowski saw eight Canadian Prime Ministers in office, most of whom he interviewed, and witnessed everything from the Quiet Revolution in Québec to the growth of economic nationalism in Canada's West. From the rise of state medicine to the decline of the patriarchy, Peter was there to comment, to resist, and to participate. Here was a man who was proud to call himself Canadian and who made millions of other Canadians realize that Canada was, in what he claimed was a Canadian expression, not a bad place to live.
Ode to Peter Gzowski
Title | Ode to Peter Gzowski PDF eBook |
Author | Shelley Ambrose |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Radio broadcasters |
ISBN | 9780973173369 |
Peter Gzowski
Title | Peter Gzowski PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Barber |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Radio broadcasters |
ISBN | 9781926583464 |
Kurt Vonnegut Remembered
Title | Kurt Vonnegut Remembered PDF eBook |
Author | Jim O'Loughlin |
Publisher | University Alabama Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2019-03-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0817320113 |
A collection of reminiscences that illuminate the career and private life of the iconic author of 'Slaughterhouse-Five' Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007), who began his writing career working for popular magazines, held both literary aspirations and an attraction to genre fiction. His conspicuous refusal to respect literary boundaries was part of what made him a countercultural icon in the 1960s and 1970s. Vonnegut’s personal life was marked in large part by public success and private turmoil. Two turbulent marriages, his sudden adoption of his late sister’s four children (and the equally sudden removal of one of those children), and a mid-eighties suicide attempt all signaled the extent of Vonnegut’s inner troubles. Yet, he was a generous friend to many, maintaining close correspondences throughout his life. Kurt Vonnegut Remembered gathers reminiscences—by those who knew him intimately, and from those met him only once—that span Vonnegut’s entire life. Among the anecdotes in this collection are remembrances from his immediate family, reflections from his comrades in World War II, and tributes from writers he worked with in Iowa City and from those who knew him when he was young. Editor Jim O’Loughlin offers biographical notes on Vonnegut’s relationship with each of these figures. Since Vonnegut’s death, much has been written on his life and work, but this new volume offers a more generous view of his life, particularly his last years. In O’Loughlin’s introduction to the volume, he argues that we can locate and understand Vonnegut’s best self through his public persona, and that in his performance as the kind and humane figure that many of the speakers here knew him as, Vonnegut became a better person than he ever felt himself to be.
Recherches Théâtrales Au Canada
Title | Recherches Théâtrales Au Canada PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Canadian drama |
ISBN |
Canada Since 1945
Title | Canada Since 1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Bothwell |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 508 |
Release | 1989-12-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1442657855 |
From the preface: "A visitor seeing Canada for the first time since 1939 might well conclude that Canada, even more than nations devastated by war, has become another country. On the surface so much remains the same: the Liberals prevail in Ottawa; the provinces quarrel with Ottawa and among themselves; and we worry about Americans in our future. But most of the pieces have been rearranged, and the effect of the picture is quite different...This is a book about our own times, and as such it expresses definite views. No reader will agree with everything we say. We have not tried to end debate; we have tried to clarify and broaden. We trust that our readers will be encouraged to seek for themselves a better understanding of where Canadians have been and what they have become." Electronic Format Disclaimer: Images removed at the request of the rights holder.