Fool For Christ : : The Intellectual Politics of J.S. Woodsworth / / Allen Mills.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Mills, Allen,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)

James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942) stands as one of the half-dozen most important national political figures in twentieth-century Canadian history. Allen Mills acknowledges his outstanding achievements while providing a critical account of the Woodsworth legacy and revising the received opinion of him as a man of unbending conviction and ever-coherent principle.A product of western Canada's pioneer society and a stern Methodist household, Woodsworth grew up to make his way into social service and politcal action. A member of parliament for over twenty years, he rejected the traditional forms of political activity, seeking a new politics and a new political party. The latter turned out to be the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation founded in 1932. Its first leader was Woodsworth himself.In a crucial period between the World Wars, Woodsworth helped define the character of the modern Canadian, non-Marxist Left and of many of Canada's important economic and social institutions. Among them are the welfare state, the Bank of Canada, and Canada's internationalist role in the contemporary world. Disclaimer: Quotes by T.S. Eliot, F.R. Scott, and Louis MacNeice removed at the request of the rights holder.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Son of the Church: 1874-1909 -- 2. Setting Sail, 1909-1921 -- 3. Politics, Parliament, and Revolution, 1922-1940 -- 4. Economics, Cooperation, and Socialism, 1922-1940 -- 5. Canada, Its Peoples, and the World: Identity and Security, 1918-1939 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Credits -- Index