THE WRITING...

                                                                                

    Peter Waite's most recent book, In Search Of

  R. B. BENNETT, is the focus of this blog.  However, I

  did get to ask him a few questions that, I'm sure, many

  of his students must have wondered about.:)

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  But first, let's get right to the heart of the matter.  

  Let's sample some of the writing from his book.  It has

  occurred to me that P.B. Waite writes the way that

  Bobby Orr used to play hockey:

  Into this bunkhouse world came of course radicals of

  various types, older, wily, experienced, disciplined,

  some of them communist sympathizers.  They set up

  committees for this, committees for that, and in

  British Columbia worked up a strong union, the 

  Worker's Unity League.  It was communist affiliated,

  its organizer Arthur "Slim" Evans (1890-1944).  Born

  in Toronto, tall, tough, brooding, looking a little like

  Boris Karloff, Evans was an agitator born and bred

  who seemed to think of nothing else but the class

  struggle.  He was often up to the edge of the law and

  sometimes over it.  In the camps, there was, perhaps

  inevitably, a fair bit of tepid tea and some hot Marx.

  [p. 213]