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The second fifty: in which the LRC completes its list of the 100 most important Canadian books.(Fifth Business)(Gentlemen, Players and Politicians)(Canada, Silent Surrender: The Multinational Corporation in)(The Blacks in Canada: A History)(The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination)(Lives of Girls and Women)(Paul Kane's Frontier)(Red Lights on the Prairies)(La Sagouine)(The Last Spike)(Leaving Home)(Survival)(Howie Meeker's Hockey Basics)(The Temptations of Big Bear)(Ten Lost Years: 1929-1939)(Alligator Pie)(The Siren Years: A Canadian Diplomat Abroad)(Bear)(A Very Double Life: The Private World of Mackenzie King)(Duplessis)(A New Athens)(The Wars)(Obasan)(None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948)(Radical Tories: The Conservative Tradition in Canada)(Banting: A Biography)(Neuromancer)(The Handmaid's Tale)(The Canadian Encyclopedia)(Report on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada)(Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age)(Solomon Gursky Was Here)(Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing)(Trudeau and Our Times: The Heroic Delusion)(The Magnificent Obsession)(The Malaise of Modernity)(Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism)(Green Grass, Running Water)(The Stone Diaries)(A Fine Balance)(The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation)(The Jade Peony)(Nationalism Without Walls: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Canadian)(The Unconscious Civilization)(Yankee Go Home?: Canadians and Anti-Americanism)(The Colony of Unrequited Dreams)(A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986)(No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies)(Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History)(Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values)(Dark Age Ahead)(Book review)
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"A land of wonks obsessed with politics and national identity." That was The Globe and Mail's pronouncement on the Canada that emerged from a close reading of the LRC's list of The 100 Most Important Canadian Books, which we unveiled last November. "An eclectic mix," opined the Ottawa Citizen, "ranging from children's books to Royal Commission reports." And columnist Sandra Albers, writing in the Kimberley Daily Bulletin and the Cranbrook Daily Townsman, noted that the whole exercise helped us live up to Canada's less-than-scintillating national stereotype: "People magazine," she ...
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