Virtual book launches: Friedland on Kennedy, Wright on Canada

There are various solutions being offered, all less than adequate, I guess, to the problem of the author who has a book coming out and cannot even invite a few friends to raise a glass in its honour.

Here is an invitation to friends of this blog who have just published or are about to publish a book that may go undrunk-to. Send us a link to a publisher's page or website or whatever about a new book relevant to the interests of this blog (i.e, nonfiction Canadian history/politics/ culture). We will attempt a little virtual launch here.

Two to begin with:

Marty Friedland, law professor, prolific scholar, author of the official history of the University of Toronto and much more, has just had published his Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy: The Biography of an Enigma.  It's an exploration of the lives of an early-twentieth century U of T law teacher and scholar who was a lot stranger than that description might suggest. I'm given some credit in it, so I'm partial, but I read it with great enthusiasm in galleys and am delighted to have a hard copy now. Salut, Marty.

Donald Wright, biographer of Donald Creighton, has a very nice piece at the Borealia blog about his mom and what to read and listen to during a pandemic. He recommends the BBC podcast Great Lives, and having listened to a couple, I concur. He notes having a new book out: Canada: A Very Short Introduction is part of Oxford University Press's "Very Short Introduction" series, said to have sold ten million copies worldwide. Cheers, Don.