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Compass Points: Navigating the 20th Century

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Leisurely Review of a Fascinating Century by Robert Chodos

THE FIRST DECADE
Opening a Window on Our Century by Michael Czerny
The Janus Decade by George Woodcock
Saskatoon: The Instant City by Don Kerr
New, Fast and Big by Rosemary Donegan and Jamie Swift
Kipling and Yeats: The Apologist and the Visionary by Stephanie Vincec
Rethinking the Universe by John Honner
The Crisis of Modernism by Roger Haight
Bloody Dress Rehearsal for 1917 by Stanley B. Ryerson

THE SECOND DECADE
A Decade of Suffering and Violence by Jacques Monet
In 1910 Human Character Changed by Modris Eksteins
Alarm Bells for Civilization by Gwynne Dyer
The Social Gospel: Christianity for the Here and Now by Ramsay Cook
Filling the Gap on the Homefront by Kori Street
A Strike with an Elusive Meaning by Doug Smith
Ontario's Bitter Language Fight by Robert Choquette
Influenza: Disease of the Wind by Eileen Pettigrew
T.E. Lawrence: Military Hero, Anguished Searcher by Dennis Duffy
Russia: Power Was in the Streets by Mary McAuley
Ireland: Destructive Adventure by John Francis Larkin

THE TWENTIES
The Exuberance and Despair of the 1920s by Stephanie Vincec
Prologue to Our Own Era by Jean Clair
Literary Fistfight in Paris by Louis Dudek
Rocky Road to Church Union by John Webster Grant
No Heroes, No Defeats: A New Era in Canadian Politics by H. Blair Neatby
Agnes Macphail in Parliament by Terry Crowley
Fascism's Mystique of Power by Alkis Kontos
Marcus Garvey: Black Moses by Robert Hill
Ascendancy of the Chiangs by Mary Rose Donnelly
Breath Came and They Lived: The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss
The Public Health Offensive by Jutta Mason
St. Miguel Pro and the Secret Kingdom by John Matheson

THE THIRTIES
Why Do the 1930s Seem So Familiar? by Martin Royackers
From Stock Market Crash to Phony War by Lukin Robinson
Desperate Canadians Turned to Political Messiahs by Allan Levine
On the Prairies, You Had to Learn to Peel a Nickel by Gail Burns
Latin America's Response to the Depression by Liisa North
Education and Economic Democracy: The Antigonish Movement by Greg MacLeod
Emmanuel Mounier: Catalyst for a Generation by John Hellman
Norman Bethune: Driven to Be an Actor on the World Stage by Andrée Lévesque
Grey Owl's Masquerade for Conservation by Donald B. Smith
The Soviet Union's Literary Underground by Ioan Davies
Guernica: Icon of the Century by Peter Larisey

THE FORTIES
The Second World War's Long Shadow by Robert Chodos
Are We Losing Sight of the Trees? by Gil Drolet
The Lasting Trauma of the Holocaust by Michael Lerner
The Atomic Bomb: Face to Face with Infinite Destruction by Robert Jay Lifton
Connections to the War Still Vibrate by Brian McKenna
Country Girl at Intelligence HQ by Imogen Ryan
In the Movies, Even Lassie Went to War by Marc Gervais
In Canada, a Legacy of Welfare and Political Division by Eric Kierans
An Ambiguous International Role for Canada by Denis Smith
Postwar Social Life Stressed Conformity by Mary Louise Adams
Alfred Pellan and the Quebec Painters' Quiet Revolution by Malcolm Reid

THE FIFTIES
A Sense of Time Standing Still by Curtis Fahey
The Cold War Masked a Geopolitical Agenda by Anatol Rapoport
Power, Confusion and Corporate Interests: McCarthy and Hoover by Peter Dale Scott
The Fifties Look: Selling a Self-Image by Philip Street
My Adventures in Darkest Suburbia by Miriam Blair
Maire-Alain Couturier: The Priest Who Championed Modern Art by Peter Larisey
A Peasant Pope Breathed New Life into the Church by Romeo Maione
The Federal Institution that United Quebecers by Louis Balthazar
TV Hard-Wired Canada into Two Solitudes by Mark Starowicz
We Created an Elvis to Meet Our Need by Malcolm Reid
Beckett's Poetic Rendering of Faith and Doubt by Craig Stewart Walker
Tony Walsh: A Gentle Man Who Challenged Others by Stephen Hagarty

THE SIXTIES
The Multi-Ring Sixties Brought Lasting Change by Peter Larisey
A Generation that Said No to Plastics by Robert Chodos
Vatican II: Outpouring of the Spirit and Human Shift by Janet Somerville
Showing the Maple Leaf in Vietnam by Victor Levant
From Hope to a Hole in the Park: The Columbia Revolt by Peter Larisey
Expo 67: Theme Park for a Happy Future by David Eley
Fit, Young and Casual Were the Trinity by Margaret Visser
Hockey Had Not Yet Lost Its Soul by Curtis Fahey
Three Sixties Stories
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Taking the Longer View by Judy MacDonald
Georges and Pauline Vanier: The Vice-Regal Couple Who Inspired Canadians by Jacques Monet

THE SEVENTIES
Watching the 1970s Weave and Unravel by Mary Rose Donnelly
From Boom to Economic Crisis by Mel Watkins
Christians Made Justice a Vital Concern by Michael Czerny
New Horizons for Canada by Doug Smith
Canadians Listened to ""Ni-wha Judge" by Louisa Blair
Nobel Moved Away from the Mainstream by Malcolm Reid
Watergate: We Still Don't Know Why by Rae Murphy
Woody's World: Beyond Sex and Death by Marc Gervais
Finding Feminism, Rediscovering Faith by Denise Nadeau
I Came Too Late for Sixties Magic by Charlie Angus
Oscar Romero: El Salvador's Archbishop to the Poor by Frances Arbour

THE EIGHTIES
The Decade in Our Blind Spot by Louisa Blair
The Rise of Neoconservatism by Rae Murphy
The Church in Canada: A Golden Autumn and a Dark Night by Doug McCarthy
Quebecers Were Asked a Question, and Gave their Answer by Daniel Latouche
Revolution on the Desktop by Gail van Varseveld
The Eighties' Environmental Legacy: Death (of Nature) by Natural Causes? by Moira Farr
Jean Vanier: Community Builder by Carolyn Whitney-Brown

THE NINETIES
The Age of America by Judy MacDonald
After the (Cold) War Is Over... by Rick Salutin
A Gambler's Society: The End of Job Security by Jamie Swift
Hannibal's Mirrors: Cyberintelligence and the Zapatista Revolution by Louisa Blair
Canada in the Information Age by Ronald Deibert
Spirituality in the Nineties: Rediscovering Sacred Spaces by Peter McIsaac
Is Aboriginal Self-Government a Mirage? by Miles Morrisseau
Rwanda: Alone with Its Deep Wounds by Augustin Karekezi
South Africa's Election: Inspiring yet Sobering by Josephine C. Naidoo
Mother Teresa: Champion of the Poor by Lucinda Vardey



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