Frank Underhill and the Politics of Ideas
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780773544871
Subjects: Socialism, canada; Canada, politics and government; Canada, history
Description: Frank Underhill (1889-1971) practically invented the role of public intellectual in English Canada through his journalism, essays, teaching, and political activity. He became one of the country's most controversial figures in the middle of the twentieth-century by confronting the central political issues of his time and by actively working to reform the Canadian political landscape. His propagation of socialist ideas during the Great Depression and his criticism of the British Empire and British foreign policy almost cost him his job at the University of Toronto. Book jacket.