Allan Levine

Scrum Wars (eBook, ePUB)

The Prime Ministers and the Media

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Scrum Wars chronicles fascinating and dramatic confrontations between the prime ministers of Canada and the men and women of Canadas news media.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781459718593
• Artikelnr.: 38467578

Autorenporträt

Allan Levine received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Toronto in 1985. He authored The Exchange: 100 Years of Trading Grain in Winnipeg edited Your Worship: The Lives of Eight of Canada's Most Unforgettable Mayors. His review and articles have appeared in the Globe & Mail, Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday Night, The Beaver, and Books in Canada. Since 1984 he has taught at St. John's-Ravenscourt School. He lives in Winnipeg.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Battle of the Scrum
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The View from the Gallery
Illustrations (following page 104)
PART ONE
Partisan Partners, 1867-1913
1 A Controlling Interest
2 Party Organs
3 Laurier and the Globe
4 Under Liberal Management
5 Politics of Virtue
PART TWO
No League of Gentlemen, 1914-1956
6 Wartime Headlines
7 The Undependable Party Press
8 The Trials of Mackenzie King
9 R.B. in Charge
10 Managing the War
11 Uncle Louis
PART THREE
The Unofficial Opposition, 1957-1992
12 Dief vs. the Gallery
13 One of the Boys
14 The "Crummy" Press
15 Judgmental Journalism
16 The Turner Follies of '84
17 Media Junkie
18 The Comeback Kid's Last Ride
Notes
Bibliography
Index