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 the: 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 ...
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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 the: 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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Add this copy of The Roar of the Twenties (Western Canadian Classics) to cart. $12.99, fair condition, Sold by Russell Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Victoria, BC, CANADA, published 2006 by Fifth House Publishers.
Add this copy of The Roar of the Twenties to cart. $14.00, good condition, Sold by SmarterRat Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chagrin Falls, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by PaperJacks.
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Good+. 1982 PaperJacks, Markham, Ontario, Canada. Trade paperback. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Black and white photographs. Binding tight. Covers have moderate edge and surface wear. Spine NOT creased. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. 358 pages. A PaperJacks Special.
Add this copy of The Roar of the Twenties to cart. $18.00, very good condition, Sold by Bison Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from winnipeg, MB, CANADA, published 1975 by Macmillan of Canada.
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pp. 358. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black and white photographic reproductions. Light general shelfwear, with slight bump to head and tail of spine and faint scuffing to spine and rear cover; very good in good, age toned dustjacket showing scuffing and short closed tears along edges.