The permeable border: how leading U.S. philanthropists helped establish Canadian culture.(Rockfeller, Carnegie and Canada: American Philanthropy and the Arts and Letters in Canada)(Book review)

From: Literary Review of Canada | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Tippett, Maria | Copyright information

Rockefeller, Carnegie and Canada: American Philanthropy and the Arts and Letters in Canada Jeffrey D. Brison McGill-Queen's University Press 281 pages, hardcover ISBN-10: 0773528687 ISBN-13: 9780773528680

When most of us think about America's contribution to Canadian culture during the years before World War II, we think of church organs and public libraries. Yet in Rockefeller, Carnegie and Canada: American Philanthropy and the Arts and Letters in Canada, Jeffrey Brison...

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