John Ralston Saul

Once again, John Ralston Saul presents the story of Canada's past so that we may better understand its present -- and imagine a better future. Historic moments are always uncomfortable, Saul writes in this impassioned argument, calling on all of us to embrace and support the comeback of Aboriginal peoples. This, he says, is the great issue of our time -- the most important missing piece in the building of Canada. The events that began late in 2012 with the Idle No More movement were not just a rough patch in Aboriginal relations with the rest of Canada. What is happening today between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals is not about guilt or sympathy or failure or romanticization of the past. It is about citizens' rights. It is about rebuilding relationships that were central to the creation of Canada. These relationships are just as important to its continued existence. The centrality of Aboriginal issues and peoples has the potential to open up a more creative way of imagining ourselves and a more honest narrative for Canada. Wide in scope but piercing in detail, The Comeback presents a powerful portrait of modern Aboriginal life in Canada, in contrast with the perceived failings so often portrayed in politics and in media. Saul illustrates his arguments by compiling a remarkable selection of letters, speeches and writings by Aboriginal leaders and thinkers, showcasing the extraordinarily rich, moving and stable indigenous point of view across the centuries. -- Provided by publisher.

In the midst of financial crisis, bestselling author John Ralston Saul revisits the role of globalism.In 1999 John Ralston Saul began predicting that Globalism would collapse. In 2005 he laid out this scenario in The Collapse of Globalism: and the Reinvention of the World. Now he has enlarged the book with a new epilogue, showing how today's crisis came about and suggesting what to do next.In this eBook special, the new conclusion to The Collapse of Globalism, John Ralston Saul draws from today's challenges to further illustrate his prophetic criticism of globalism, the West, its leaders and a world in flux. Through open discussion, there is an opportunity to construct a more balanced and sophisticated model for society—what may be the "project of a century."

Saul argues passionately that Canada is a Métis nation heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas.

Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West is a sweeping and provocative exploration of nothing less than the political, economic, social, and cultural origins of Western society. With great daring and originality, John Ralston Saul dissects the contradictions, delusions, and illusions that have brought the world to the brink of confusion and crisis, and shatters the myths surrounding the icons and institutions that we have been taught to revere and cherish.

In 'Dark Diversions' acclaimed author John Ralston Saul stages a black comedy of international proportions that takes the reader from New York to Paris to Morocco to Haiti in the 1980's and 1990's. When he's not encountering dictators in Third World hot spots, Saul's narrator moves in privileged circles on both sides of the Atlantic, insinuating himself in to the lives of well-to-do aristocrats. Through his exploits we experience a fascinating world of secret lovers, exiled princesses, death by veganism and religious heresies. The emotional fireworks of these inhabitants of the First World are sharply juxtaposed with the political infighting of the dictators and the corruption, double-dealing and fawning that attend them. But as the narrator becomes further enmeshed in these worlds, his outsider status grows more ambiguous: Is he a documentarian of privileged foibles and fundamental inequity, or an embodiment of the very "dark diversions" he chronicles?

"Few athletes, even great ones, transcend their sport. But right from the start Maurice Richard represented far more than a high-scoring forward who filled seats in NHL arenas. The March 1955 Richard Riot, in which fans went on a rampage to protest his suspension, contained the seeds of a transformation. The fact that during Richard's final five seasons his team won the Stanley Cup each spring, and that his retirement in 1960 coincided with the defeat of the repressive Duplessis regime and the emergence of a government that would quickly reinvent Quebec as a modern, secular society, made it impossible to separate his athletic accomplishments from the social and political evolutions of his time"--Pub. info.