David MacKenzie's new book King and Chaos: The 1935 Canadian General Election was published recently. I have not read it; I'm noting it mostly so I can quote a delicious line from Jack Granatstein's review of it in October's Literary Review of Canada.
Granatstein notes that this is one in a series of books on specific Canadian general elections, the previous ones all written by political scientists. He notes:
This book is less committed to theory, has fewer charts, and is more straightforward in its approach. The series editors should be congratulated for asking a historian to write one of their titles.
