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S'està carregant… Tommy Douglasde Vincent Lam
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This rating is for the French translation, which was the only edition I could get a hold of through my library. The book itself, content-wise, is fine, but the tale seems longer in the telling in French. There were also some weird translator’s notes. For example, a bit where an English source uses the term “agent provocateur”, which has passed into the English language, and the translator leaves a note saying that agent provocateur was in French in the English source. Why point that out? What bugged me more, and what often bugs me about English-language biographies that quote from sources not in the same language as the biography, is that there was no statement about “all translations are the translator’s unless otherwise stated”. I would want to know whether the translator could have used existing French translations of English sources or if he had to translate all of the quotes as well. (A related thing I wonder about in English-language non-fiction is when people quote from non-English sources but have clearly translated them. Too few people state whether they’ve done the work themselves or relied on others. Sometimes this information comes up in the acknowledgements, but it should be in the text as well.) ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Once voted the greatest Canadian of all time, Tommy Douglas was a prairie politician who believed in democratic socialism, the crucial role of civil rights, and the great potential of cooperation for the common good. He is best known as the "Father of Medicare." Born in 1904, Douglas was a championship boxer and a Baptist minister who later exchanged his pulpit for a political platform. A powerful orator and tireless activist, he sat first as a federal MP and then served for 17 years as premier of Saskatchewan, where he introduced the universal health-insurance system that would eventually be adopted across Canada. As leader of the national NDP, he was a staunch advocate of programs such as the Canada Pension Plan and was often the conscience of Parliament on matters of civil liberties. In the process, he made democratic socialism a part of mainstream Canadian political life. Giller Prize-winning author Vincent Lam, an emergency physician who works on the front lines of the health-care system, brings a novelist's eye to the life of one of Canada's greats. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)971.24History and Geography North America Canada Prairie Provinces, Western Canada SaskatchewanLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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