Baraka
Or The Lives, Fortunes And Sacred Honor Of Anthony Smith, The Field Trilogy
- Publisher
- Random House of Canada
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1997
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780679308911
- Publish Date
- Sep 1997
- List Price
- $28.00
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About the author
John Ralston Saul is one of Canada’s leading social and political commentators. He is the author of numerous books on philosophy and contemporary politics, including Voltaire’s Bastards, Reflections Of A Siamese Twin, and most recently The Collapse of Globalism. Saul was the Massey lecturer in 1995, and won the 1996 Governor General’s Award for nonfiction for The Unconscious Civilization, based on those lectures. He is the former president of PEN Canada and the creator of the acclaimed LaFontaine Baldwin Lecture series. A regular speaker and panelist across Canada and internationally, John Ralston Saul currently lives in Toronto.
Editorial Reviews
"John Ralston Saul questions the fate of morality at a time when large corporations can unleash the dogs of war. His hero and others with him are the victims of a new world where one does not die for an idea, but for a portfolio of shares." -Le Monde