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Writing History
Michael Bliss
其他書名
A Professor’s Life
出版Dundurn, 2011-09-20
主題Biography & Autobiography / EducatorsBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsBiography & Autobiography / Social Scientists & Psychologists
ISBN15548895459781554889549
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VSj4bpXICHEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋One of Canada’s best-known and most-honoured biographers turns to the raw material of his own life in Writing History. A university professor, prolific scholar, public intellectual, and frank critic of the world he has known, Michael Bliss draws on extensive personal diaries to describe a life that has taken him from small-town Ontario in the 1950s to international recognition for his books in Canadian and medical history. His memoir ranges remarkably widely: it encompasses social history, family tragedy, a critical insider’s view of university life, Canadian national politics, and, above all, a rare glimpse into the craftsmanship that goes into the research and writing of history in our time.



Whether writing about pigs and millionaires, the discovery of insulin, sleazy Canadian politicians, or the founders of modern medicine and brain surgery, Michael Bliss is noted for the clarity of his prose, the honesty of his opinions, and the breadth of his literary interests.