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Synopsis
Decades after its release in 1975, James Gray_s trademark energetic prose pulsates with the essence of this flamboyant era when idealism ran rampant across the prairies. Gray captures Political frustrations of the farmers and the resulting turbulent Progressive movement and the resulting Wheat Pools Radical idealism of the One Big Union, born after the Winnipeg General Strike in 1919 Gambling fever that struck not only Western Canadians, but all North Americans, spawned by those who put their paychecks in football pools, horse races, and the spectacular ups and downs of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange Social and religious movements such as the birth of the United Church and the Ku Klux Klan. James Gray has written of an exciting and flamboyant era, a time never to be forgotten.
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The Roar of the Twenties
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Paperjacks, Markham, ON, 1982
ISBN 10: 0770102220
ISBN 13: 9780770102227
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Seller: Marnie Taylor Books & Antiques, NIAGARA ON THE LAKE, ON, Canada
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. trade paperback reprint, history of the 1920's on the Canadian prairies with the emphasis on interesting aspects of social history, good condition, cover shows shelfwear and use, a fold to front top corner, page edges darkened, text clean and unmarked, black and white photographs, good reading copy. Seller Inventory # 003284