TY - BOOK AU - Christian,William TI - George Grant: A Biography SN - 9781442675285 AV - B995.G724 C475 1994 U1 - 191 B PY - 1996/// CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHRONOLOGY -- PREFACE -- 1 They'd prefer ice-cream -- 2 Work for King and Country -- 3 Willie's boy -- 4 Somebody might like me for myself -- 5 An ambitious little pragmatist -- 6 Mysterious forces within man -- 7 Take what you want said God -- 8 It was easy to lose courage -- 9 Exploring the universe -- 10 The solid basis of qualifications -- 11 Listening to Mozart - I felt such love -- 12 Out of the shadows into truth -- 13 No satisfactory compromise was possible -- 14 Old and dirty and fat -- 15 The fifth column -- 16 Simone Weil -- 17 Lament -- 18 A lone wolf -- 19 Intimations of deprival -- 20 The botched and the bungled -- 21 Museum culture -- 22 Caught up in fates -- 23 Christ's care is for all -- 24 Out of Christian certainties -- 25 No great disaster -- Epilogue -- NOTES -- SOURCES -- Archival and interview sources -- Works mentioned in text or notes -- Selected secondary sources -- Bibliography of George Grant's publications -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- PHOTO CREDITS N2 - George Grant's Lament for a Nation and Technology and Empire inspired a generation of Canadians. This readable biography revels in the life of a fascinating religious and political thinker, warts, gossip and all UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4671549 ER -