At Play in the Fields of Museologists: Two Years at the Canadian War Museum

J.L. Granatstein is Distinguished Research Professor of History Emeritus at York University. He was director and CEO of the Canadian war Museum from 1998 – 2000, and has written numerous books on Canadian History, including the prize-winning The Generals: The Canadian Army’s Senior Commanders in the Second World War (1993) and Who Killed Canadian History? (1998). He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1997, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1982. He will hold the J.B. Smallman Memorial Chair in History at the University of Western Ontario in 2003. His many scholarly and popular books include The Politics of Survival: The Conservative Party of Canada 1939-45 (1967), Peacekeeping: International Challenge and Canadian Response (1968), Canada’s War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government 1939-45 (1975, 1990), Ties that Blind: Canadian-American Relations in Wartime (1975), Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada (1977, 1985), American Dollars/Canadian Prosperity (1978), A Man of Influence: Norman Robertson and Canadian Statecraft (1981), The Ottawa Men: The Civil Service Mandarins, 1935-57 (1982, 1998), Bloody Victory: Canadians and the D-Day Campaign (1984, 1994), The Great Brain Robbery: Canada’s Universities on the Road to Ruin (1984), Sacred Trust : Brian Mulroney and the Conservative Party in Power (1985), Canada 1957-1967: The Years of Uncertainty and Innovation (1986), The Collins Dictionary of Canadian History (1986), How Britain’s Weakness Forced Canada into the Arms of the United States (1989), Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War (1989), A Nation Forged in Fire: Canadians and the Second World War(1989), Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy (1990, 1991), Spy Wars: Canada and Espionage from Gouzenko to Glasnost (1990, 1992), Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese in World War II (1990; éd. Japonaise, 1994), For Better or For Worse: Canada and the United States to the 1990’s (1991, 1992), War and Peacekeeping: From South Africa to the Gulf-Canada’s Limited Wars (1991), Dictionary of Canadian Military History (1992, 1994), The Generals: The Canadian Army’s Senior Commanders in the Second World War (1993, 1995), Empire to Umpire: Canadian Foreign Policy to the 1990’s (1994), Victory 1945: Canadians from War to Peace (1995), The Good Fight: Canadians and World War II (1995), Yankee Go Home ? Canadians and Anti-Americanism (1996-1997), Petrified Campus: Canada’s Universities in Crisis (1997), The Canadian 100: The Hundred Most Influential Canadians of the Twentieth Century (1997), The Veterans Charter and Post-World War II Canada (1998), Who killed Canadian History? (1998, 1999), and Trudeau’s Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Pierre Trudeau (1998). He is preparing, with Norman Hillmer, Prime Ministers: Rating the Prime Ministers (1999) and Canada’s Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace (2002).