POINTS OF VIEW, Political and Social Commentary by Rex Murphy (2004 1st PB Ed.)

Author: Rex Murphy. Published by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, ON., 2003, 1st Edition. (2004 1st Paper Back Edition) Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 6 x 9 inch, 293 pages.

POINTS OF VIEW, Political and Social Commentary by Rex Murphy, is where Rex has selected the best from thirty years of writing and speech-making – a variety that reveals the range of his mind, and a total pleasure for his readers.

Rex Murphy left his outpost home in Newfoundland to go to university at the age of 15. Since that time (including a spell at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar) he has been writing and talking. His skills in that area have made him Canada’s most-watched TV commentator – with an opinion spot on CBC-TV’s “The National” – while his speeches have earned standing ovations from coast to coast. And, always, his audience wants to know “When will you put this in a book?” And the answer is “NOW.”

Here you’ll find tributes to people as apparently unlinked as Joey Smallwood and William Shakespeare; book reviews that turn into instructive essays about other places in other centuries; hard-hitting attacks on politicians and other malefactors that will have you cheering as you read; hilarious satires on human folly; and gentle memories of Newfoundland and its people.

For more info on this Author, please see: Rex Murphy (Profile) | The Canadian Encyclopedia