Peter Graham and Ian McKay, Radical Ambition: The New Left in Toronto.
Book Review
Finkel, Alvin
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Peter+Graham+and+Ian+McKay%2c+Radical+Ambition%3a+The+New+Left+in+Toronto.-a0609217100
Date Written: 2019-09-22
Publisher: Canadian Committee on Labour History
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX24156
Works on the Canadian New Left are now sprouting plentifully and certainly a work on the country's major city is welcome. This one is encyclopedic, and Graham and McKay deserve thanks for their inclusive rendition of the youthful radical movements in Toronto from 1958 to 1985. The book is generous in its treatment of most of them, though it offers, as it should, analysis of why some groups achieved more in the short term than others while still others left a lasting legacy, for example, in preserving natural areas or working-class neighbourhoods that corporate interests wanted to bulldoze.
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