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| Other authors / contributors: | Hannant, Larry, 1950-
Canadian Committee on Labour History.
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| ISBN: | 9781926836096
192683609X
9781459340268
1459340264
9781926836348
1926836340
128297789X
9781282977891
9781926836089
1926836081
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Publisher's Web site: http://www.aupress.ca.
"Canadian Committee on Labour History."
Includes bibliographical endnotes and index.
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| 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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| Other form: | Whyte, Bert, 1909-1984. Champagne and meatballs.: Edmonton, AB : AU Press, [2011] ©2011 Working Canadians (Edmonton, Alta.) Working Canadians : books from the CCLH
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