Author: John Ralston Saul. Published by Viking/Penguin Group, 1997, 1st Edition. FLAT SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Printed in USA. Almost New Condition HARDCOVER Book, and Dust Jacket, with light handling. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9.25 x 6.25 inch, 546 pages.
REFLECTIONS OF A SIAMESE TWIN, is a startling exercise of reorientation, as John Ralston Saul excavates our Canadian myths – real, false, and denied – and reconciles them with the reality of today’s politics, culture and economics.
He attacks the denial of place into which our urban centres have fallen, delineates the dramatic differences between positive and negative nationalism, probes the implications of continuing decentralization and decries the shift in focus from the public good to narrow interest groups. He proposes solutions to our mid-life crisis in social policy by reminding us of the extent to which reconciliation and reform have always been, and remain, at the core of the country’s creation and survival.
“Thank God for John Ralston Saul. At least Canada has one leading intellectual unafraid to challenge the negative nationalism and feeble orthodoxies that seem to consume our elites.” -Reviewed by The Vancouver Sun.
