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Coles Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert
Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier
during the Second World War, 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 Second World War, 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.
Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert
Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier
during the Second World War, 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 Second World War, 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.
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