Description
Book SynopsisA Long Way to Paradise is a lively account of the personalities and ideas that shaped the first hundred years of BC politics and created one of Canada’s most fractious and dynamic political scenes.
Trade ReviewThis book is one of the very best histories of Canadian provincial politics. -- J. L. Granatstein, emeritus, York University * CHOICE Connect *
A new history of British Columbia richly blends political history with the not-so-new social history in the late Robert A.J. McDonald’s
A Long Way to Paradise. -- Gene Homel * BC Bookworld *
...a masterful book that will undoubtedly be the definitive political history of British Columbia for years to come. -- Forrest Pass * The British Columbia Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 Confederation and the Birth of Popular Politics, 1871–83
2 Politics before Parties in a New Province, 1884–1902
3 Singing the Song of Progress in the McBride Years, 1903–15
4 Paradise Modern and the Party of Reform, 1916–28
5 Pattullo’s New Liberalism and the Revolt beyond the Rockies, 1928–41
6 Unsettling Capitalism during the Depression, 1933–39
7 The Politics of War and Keeping the Socialists at Bay, 1941–45
8 Right versus Left and Social Credit’s Triumph, 1945–52
9 Prosperity for All and Province Building in the Bennett Era, 1952–72
10 Trying to Dress Up the NDP in a Saville Row Suit, 1961–72
11 Bennett’s Defeat and BC’s First Social Democratic Government, 1965–72
Conclusion
Appendix; Notes; About the Author; Index
