The Underhill Review

 

Fall 2007

ESSAYS

 

From Dawn to Decadence? The Amazing Century of Jacques Barzun 
Modris Eksteins

 

Frank Underhill: The Historian as Essayist
Kenneth C. Dewar

 

FEATURE REVIEW ESSAY

 

Philosophy on the Edge of Empire
Robert Sibley

 

Charles Taylor, A Secular Age.  Belknap Press, 2007, 896 pages

Janet Ajzenstat, The Canadian Founding; John Locke and Parliament. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007, 198 pages

Hugh Donald Forbes, George Grant: a guide to his thought. University of Toronto Press, 2007, 200 pages

Alexander John Watson, Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Adams Innis. UTP, 2005, 480 pages

 

REVIEW ESSAYS

 

Canucks Between the Covers
Margery Fee

 

Carole Gerson and Jacques Michon, eds., History of the Book in Canada: Volume 3: 1918-1980. University of Toronto Press, 2007, 638 pages

Nick Mount, When Canadian Literature Moved to New York. University of Toronto Press, 2005, 210 pages

Lorraine York, Literary Celebrity in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, 200 pages

 

Doing and Undoing Masculinity
Karen Dubinsky  

 

Chris Dummitt, The Manly Modern: Masculinity in Postwar Canada . University of British Columbia Press, 2007, 232 pages

Paul Jackson, One of the Boys: Homosexuality in the Military during World War II. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004, 338 pages

Sherene H. Razack, Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair,  Peacekeeping,  and the New Imperialism. University of Toronto Press, 2004, 236 pages

 

The Many Misters Trudeau
Donald Wright

 

Max Nemni and Monique Nemni; trans. William Johnson, Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919-1944. trans. William Johnson, Douglas Gibson Books, 2006, 352 pages

John English, Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott, Volume One: 1919-1968, Random House, 2006, 576 pages

Ramsay Cook, The Teeth of Time; Remembering Pierre Elliott Trudeau. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006, 228 pages