Now, the audiobook. An intimate history of the journalists who covered Canadian history, and made plenty of their own. Long list nominee, 2019 RBC Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction. Read by Richard Clarkin.
The audiobook traces the lively stories of the men and women who covered the 23 prime ministers of Canada – from Sir John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau — over the past 150 years, and generated some colourful stories about themselves in the process — some of them printable.
The Riel Rebellion, the Pacific scandal, two world wars, the Depression, Quebec separatism, and terrorism are all part of the sweeping background to this lively account of how the news gets made, manipulated, and, sometimes, mangled. So are stories about the bootleg booze in the press gallery, the all-night parties — and the time they called for an ambulance and a doctor.
The book traces the lively stories of the men and women who covered the 23 prime ministers of Canada – from Sir John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau — over the past 150 years, and generated some stories about themselves in the process.
The Riel Rebellion, the Pacific scandal, two world wars, the Depression, Quebec separatism, and terrorism are all part of the sweeping background to this lively account of how the news gets made, manipulated, and, sometimes, mangled. So are stories about the bootleg booze in the press gallery, the all-night parties — and the time they called for an ambulance and a doctor.
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