| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : illustrations, portrait. |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Working Canadians : books from the CCLH,
1925-184X
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Working Canadians (Edmonton, Alta. : Online)
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| Note |
Publisher's Web site: http://www.aupress.ca. |
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"Canadian Committee on Labour History." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical endnotes and index. |
| Contents |
Early years -- The 1930s -- War -- Postwar years -- Letters from China, with a foreward by Monica Whyte -- Appendix. |
| Summary |
"Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a great yarn. In Champagne and Meatballs -- a memoir written not long before his death in Moscow in 1984 -- we meet a cigar-smoking rogue who was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a political meeting. His stories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combat and camaraderie at the front lines in World War II, and of surviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compelling reading. The manuscript of Champagne and Meatballs was brought to light and edited by historian Larry Hannant, who has written a fascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the text. Brash, irreverent, informative, and entertaining, Whyte's tale is history and biography accompanied by a wink of his eye -- the left one, of course."--Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Whyte, Bert, 1909-1984.
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Whyte, Bert, 1909-1984. |
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Communist Party of Canada -- Biography.
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Communist Party of Canada. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Whyte, Bert, 1909-1984. |
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Parti communiste canadien -- Biographies. |
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Communists -- Canada -- Biography.
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Communists. |
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Canada. |
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Journalists -- Canada -- Biography.
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Journalists. |
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Soldiers -- Canada -- Biography.
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Soldiers. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Hannant, Larry, 1950-
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Canadian Committee on Labour History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Whyte, Bert, 1909-1984. Champagne and meatballs. Edmonton : AU Press, ©2011 9781926836089 (OCoLC)691744570 |
| ISBN |
9781459340268 (electronic book) |
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1459340264 (electronic book) |
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9781926836096 (electronic book) |
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192683609X (electronic book) |
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9781926836348 (electronic book) |
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1926836340 (electronic book) |
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9781926836089 |
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1926836081 |
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