Champagne and Meatballs : Adventures of a Canadian Communist Paperback / softback
by Bert Whyte
Edited by Larry Hannant
Part of the Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH series
Paperback / softback
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Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, BertWhyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldierduring the Second World War, and a press correspondent in Beijingand Moscow.
But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would bemistaken.
Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a greatyarn.
In Champagne and Meatballs — a memoir written notlong before his death in Moscow in 1984 — we meet a cigar-smokingrogue who was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a politicalmeeting.
His stories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combatand camaraderie at the front lines in Second World War, and ofsurviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compellingreading. The manuscript of Champagne and Meatballs was brought tolight and edited by historian Larry Hannant, who has written afascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the text.
Brash,irreverent, informative, and entertaining, Whyte’s tale ishistory and biography accompanied by a wink of his eye — the leftone, of course.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, 23 b&w images
- Publisher:AU Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2011
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- ISBN:9781926836089
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, 23 b&w images
- Publisher:AU Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781926836089