Quotes from Reviews – Reflections of a Siamese Twin

“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.”
-The Vancouver Sun

“John Ralston Saul can claim shelf space with such seminal thinkers as Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan and George Grant.”
- Maclean’s ( Toronto)

“This weighty, worrying, often lyrical and ultimately very enriching volume takes in the whole scope of history, politics and culture – real and mythologized.”
– The Edmonton Journal

“Saul has crafted an original and breathtaking analysis of Canadian political history. Every thinking Canadian…must read it.”
- The Sunday Daily News ( Halifax)

“Saul’s is a sweeping, deeply thoughtful and highly original meditation on Canada – a startling book.”
- The Globe and Mail ( Toronto)

“A powerful stimulant to revive a country sleep-walking into dependence or disintegration. And that is no small thing.”
- The Gazette (Montréal)

“[Saul] is not a man of timid or partial judgments. He is instead bold, direct and imaginative.”
- Winnipeg Free Press

 

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