True patriot love
Subtitle: four generations in search of Canada
By: Michael Ignatieff
Publisher: Viking Canada
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780670069729
Subjects: Family; Biographies; Nationalisme; Political and social views; Pensée politique et sociale; Nationalism; Famille; Biography
Work titles: Terre de nos aïeux
Description: "In True Patriot Love, Ignatieff turns to his mother{u2019}s family, the Grants. Over three generations the Grants conducted a spirited public argument about what Canada was and should be. True Patriot Love is both a tribute to and a reckoning with that inheritance. In 1872, the author{u2019}s great-grandfather George Monro Grant, set out with Sandford Fleming to map out the railway line that would link Canada from ocean to ocean. His grandfather William Lawson Grant fought at the Somme in World War I and came home believing that Canada had earned the right to call itself a fully independent nation. His son George Grant, author of Lament for a Nation, believed that Canada had gone from colony to nation and back to colony{u2014}of the United States. Michael Ignatieff retells the history of his ancestors as a story of one family{u2019}s search for Canada. He has turned a family memoir into a history of their love of country." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Issued also in French under title: Terre de nos aïeux.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-194) and index.