《STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT AMERICAN EDUCATION》

PART ONE: PATTERNS OF CHANGE1

1 Beginnings3

2 Economic Growth and Change9

3 The Demographic Background26

4 The Exchange Rate, Money, Banks, and Inflation34

5 Trade, Imports of Capital, and the Question of Foreign Ownership46

PART TWO: THE END OF MACKENZIE KING 1945-855

6 Canada Adrift57

7 The End of the War63

8 The Legacy of War70

9 A Strategy for Economic Survival78

10 Making a Better Country91

11 Making a Better World102

12 Popular Culture109

13 Education121

PART THREE: THE ST LAURENT YEARS 1948-57129

14 A New Cabinet and Its Foreign Policy131

15 Liberal Centralization147

16 Roads and Resources154

17 Building the Welfare State161

18 Stratford, Elvis, and the Happy Gang165

19 Crosscurrents in Economic Affairs and Policy176

20 The Twilight of the Grits190

PART FOUR: THE DIEFENBAKER YEARS 1957-63195

21 The Shape of Things197

22 Delusions Complete or Partial200

23 Managing the Economy: Budgets, the Bank, and the Diefenbuck213

24 Bad luck and Bad Management: Dominion-Provincial Perplexities, the Columbia, and the “Great Defence Debacle234

25 From the Old Ways to the New: The Changing Atmosphere of the Early Sixties253

PART FIVE: THE PEARSON YEARS 1963-8267

26 Coming Apart and Changing Together269

27 The Economy and the Flowering of the Social Service State311

28 The Sixties: Nationalism and Culture332

PART SIX: INTO THE SEVENTIES AND BEYOND339

29 Political Culture: The End of the Tenth Decade341

30 Canada and the World Beyond371

31 Quebec and the Constitution379

32 The October Crisis and After388

33 Economic Developments407

34 Living in the Seventies: Culture, Education, and Social Trends437

PART SEVEN: CONCLUSION455

35 Conclusion457

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY461

INDEX469