Michael Ignatieff Discusses True Patriot Love

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In his prize-winning memoir, The Russian Album, Michael Ignatieff chronicled the fortunes of his fathers family in Russia and in Canada. Now, in True Patriot Love, Ignatieff turns to his mothers family, the Grants. Over three generations the Grants conducted a spirited public argument about what Canada was and should be. True Patriot Love is both a tribute to and a reckoning with that inheritance.

In 1872, the authors great-grandfather George Monro Grant, set out with Sandford Fleming to map out the railway line that would link Canada from ocean to ocean. His grandfather William Lawson Grant fought at the Somme in World War I and came home believing that Canada had earned the right to call itself a fully independent nation. His son George Grant, author of Lament for a Nation, believed that Canada had gone from colony to nation and back to colony—of the United States.

Michael Ignatieff retells the history of his ancestors as a story of one familys search for Canada. He has turned a family memoir into a history of their love of country.

Michael Ignatieff is a writer, historian and now the Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. His many books include Scar Tissue, nominated for the Booker Prize, Blood and Belonging, winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize, and The Russian Album, winner of the Governor Generals Award for Non-Fiction. Until 2000, he was a Professor at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and since 2006 has been Member of Parliament for Etobicoke-Lakeshore.

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[belltocher]

all politicians should be required to wear a suit, like a race car driver, with all of there sponsors on it. they should not be allowed to be on camera without people knowing who they work for. fo

[jblackrupert]

Too bad Michael Ignatieff who's 64 hasn't lived in Canada MOST of his adult life.

[canuckleful]

Ignatieff talking about Canada, is excactly like Catholics talking about love.

[shlomooo000]

Asshole

[Gillhoolee]

Yes , & Gandhi having left India to be educated elsewhere wasn't Indian I suppose? lol....

What about Gretzky? Should we start asking him for a VISA?lol What about our Astronauts that live breath &crap in Florida before floating around in space? There was a time when Canadians had so much to offer the world they were encouraged to go abroad. Sadly Mr. Harper would love for us to stay home, be ill informed and have him treat us like mushrooms, kept in the dark & fed Tory horseshite!

[fatezor]

because from 1970 something - 2005 the guy didn't even live in Canada.

Canadians want a Canadian leader.

[Gillhoolee]

Just who is Stephen J Harper to try & deny this Canadian his BIRTHRIGHT based on his global appeal and demand elsewhere in the world?