Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue
Canada in the 1960s: Looking Backward 3
Part I Money and Madness in the Shadow of Fear
Chapter One When the Buck Was Bad: The Dollar and Canadian Identity Entering the 1960s 27
Chapter Two Shelter from the Storm: The Cold War and the Making of Early 1960s Canada 49
Part II National Identity and the Challenge of Change: From Munsinger to Trudeau
Chapter Three Scandalous Sex: A Cold (War) Case 77
Chapter Four Canada's Great White Hope: George Chuvalo vs. Muhammad Ali 111
Chapter Five Celebrity and Audacity: Marshall McLuhan, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and the Decade of the Philosopher King 139
Part III Suggestions of Tumult
Chapter Six Riotous Victorianism: From Youth Hooliganism to a Counterculture of Challenge 181
Chapter Seven Wildcat Workers: The Unruly Face of Class Struggle 211
Part IV Radicalism, Revolution, and Red Power
Chapter Eight New Left Liberations: The Poetics, Praxis, and Politics of Youth Radicalism 245
Chapter Nine Quebec: Revolution Now! 311
Chapter Ten The 'Discovery' of the 'Indian' 367
Part V Conclusion
Chapter Eleven Ironic Canadianism: National Identity and the 1960s 415
Notes 431
Index 575
Illustration section follows page 276