George Grant : a biography / William Christian.

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George Grant's Lament for a Nation and Technology and Empire inspired a generation of Canadians. This readable biography revels in the life of a fascinating religious and political thinker, warts, gossip and all.

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George Parkin Grant (1918-1988) was a Canadian philosopher, theologian, and professor, a combination unlikely to produce a writer and thinker at once vigorous, popular, and nationally known. He was scion of a famous family: his grandfather was Principal of Queen's University, Kingston, his father, Principal of Upper Canada College. Grant was the nearest thing to a Canadian aristocrat, but never looked it: rumpled, unkempt, he smoked (too much), drank (too much), sired six children by a wife whom he admired and loved, and enjoyed life to the lees. He was a wonderful teacher; students loved him for his sincerity, and his willingness to listen to, and reflect on, what they said. A good book about him requires assiduity and admiration; Grant got both in Christian's illuminating biography. It provides the real flavor of Grant himself, his hyperbole, his enthusiasms, his energy. Grant is taken mostly at his face value; others more skeptical sometimes found it difficult to take him seriously, for he rode his penchants with awesome verve. If a little long sometimes on Grant's philosophical adventures, this marvelous book is engaging and satisfying. Altogether, it is a splendid piece of work. General readers, undergraduates, and above. P. B. Waite; Dalhousie University