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Laddar... The Non-potable Scotch (1963)av John Kenneth Galbraith
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This was leant to me by a friend who is really into geneology. Readable account of the Scotch who settled and lived in Ontario, near Lake Erie. ( ) The famous scholar and diplomat writes of the Canadian community on the north shore of Lake Erie where he was born, and of the Scotch - they were never called Scots - who inhabit it. In an account sparkling with wit and humour and rich in the details of rural life, he tells of the clansmen, their society, and their countryside as he remembers them from his youth. (- from the jacket notes.) An interesting and amusing read, both for the historical reflections and the gentle humour. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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In 1908, in Dunwich Township, a patch of rural southern Ontario that was more Scottish than much of Scotland, the renowned economist and public servant John Kenneth Galbraith was born. In 1963, Galbraith wroteThe Scotch,a memoir of the tight (in every sense) community in which he was raised. Galbraith tells how the men were distinguished by the amount of land they’d accumulated, how hard they worked, how hard they drank, but mainly by how frugal they were. It was said that Codfish John McKillop was so economical that when he died and was being lowered into his grave, he lifted the cover of his coffin and handed out his clothes. Educated himself first at the one-room Willey School, where team sports were held to be “bad for a youngster,” and later at Dutton High School under the aegis of an incompetent teacher who believed in learning through terror, Galbraith raced through the early grades and left for the Ontario Agricultural College, en route, eventually, to Harvard. He may have left the community, but, it’s clear from this affectionate, if pointed, portrait, it never left him. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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