Articles tagged with: history
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The journalist and author Andrew Scott discusses his new work, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia (Harbour Publishing, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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Mark Garvey, the author of Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style (Touchstone, 2009), discusses the style guide, its history, its authors William Strunk Jr., and E.B. White, and who it’s influenced over fifty years now, with Joseph Planta.
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The director of communications for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former Newsweek correspondent Michael Meyer discusses his new book, The Year that Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Scribner, 2009), with Joseph Planta; they talk about the events in eastern Europe twenty years ago in Hungary and throughout the communist bloc that led to the fall of the Wall, Romania and the Ceausescu’s, and the lessons we can apply to today.
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Nathalie Cooke, the associate dean of arts at McGill University and editor of CuiZine: The (e)journal of Canadian Food Cultures, talks to Joseph Planta about the new collection she’s edited, What’s to Eat? Entrée’s in Canadian Food History (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009), an informative and fascinating look at Canada’s foodways.
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The economist and commentator Brian Lee Crowley, president of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, discusses his new book Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values (Key Porter, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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The Dominion Institute’s co-founder and National Post columnist, Rudyard Griffiths discusses his new book, Who We Are: A Citizen’s Manifesto (Douglas & McIntyre, 2009) with Joseph Planta.
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The author, historian, journalist and novelist Robert Moss discusses his new book, The Secret History of Dreaming (New World Library, 2009) with Joseph Planta.
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CPAC’s Holly Doan talks to Joseph Planta about her current documentary series, The Premiers, airing Sunday evenings on the Cable Public Affairs Channel, profiling Canadian premiers in history like Joey Smallwood, W.A.C. Bennett, Tommy Douglas, Maurice Duplessis, and Leslie Frost, amongst others.
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Author and historian Eric Jamieson discusses his new book, Tragedy at Second Narrows: The Story of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge (Harbour Publishing, 2008) with Joseph Planta.
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The distingushed Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer discusses his latest book, Champlain’s Dream: The Visionary Adventurer Who Made a New World in Canada (Knopf, 2008) with Joseph Planta.
