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Champagne and meatballs : adventures of a Canadian communist / Bert Whyte ; edited and with an introduction by Larry Hannant.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Working Canadians (Edmonton, Alta.)Publication details: Edmonton : AU Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781926836096
  • 192683609X
  • 9781459340268
  • 1459340264
  • 9781926836348
  • 1926836340
  • 128297789X
  • 9781282977891
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Champagne and meatballs.:DDC classification:
  • 335.43092 22
LOC classification:
  • HX104.7.W49 A3 2011eb
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
  • coll11
  • coll13
Online resources:
Contents:
Early years -- The 1930s -- The 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
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Publisher's Web site: http://www.aupress.ca.

"Canadian Committee on Labour History."

Includes bibliographical endnotes and index.

Early years -- The 1930s -- The war -- Postwar years -- Letters from China, with a foreward by Monica Whyte -- Appendix.

"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

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