Fool for Christ: The Intellectual Politics of J.S. Woodsworth

by Allen Mills

Book Overview

James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942) stands as one of the half-dozen most important national political figures in twentieth-century Canadian history. Allen Mills acknowledges his outstanding achievements while providing a critical account of the Woodsworth legacy and revising the received opinion of him as a man of unbending conviction and ever-coherent principle.

A product of western Canada's pioneer society and a stern Methodist household,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802068421
• ISBN13: 9780802068422
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"