Dream No Little Dreams
"'In its PhD dissertation form, Dream No Little Dreams has been something of an underground "classic" among prairie historians and public administration scholars who have used it for years. This new version makes this important story available to a much wider audience and will be of special interest as the growth of scholarly debate around the founding of Medicare heats up. A.W. Johnson's meticulous and close reading of the archival data is both a hallmark of good historical scholarship and a useful source of information for scholars in the field.' Ken Rasmussen, Faculty of Administration, University of Regina"
In 1944, the people of Saskatchewan elected the first socialist government in North America. Dream No Little Dreams is the biography of that government, led by the great Tommy Douglas of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF, later the New Democratic Party). Les mer
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Dream No Little Dreams offers rich insight into the initial planning stages of Medicare and details the protracted struggle with the medical profession that followed as Douglas fought to implement it. Johnson also addresses the question of how socialists were going to pay for all their ambitions, and situates the answer in the context of developments in national policy and in federal-provincial fiscal arrangements from the war years through to the 1960s.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Toronto Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780802086334
- Utgivelsesår
- 2007
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
- Priser
- Donald Smiley Prize 2005
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"'In its PhD dissertation form, Dream No Little Dreams has been something of an underground "classic" among prairie historians and public administration scholars who have used it for years. This new version makes this important story available to a much wider audience and will be of special interest as the growth of scholarly debate around the founding of Medicare heats up. A.W. Johnson's meticulous and close reading of the archival data is both a hallmark of good historical scholarship and a useful source of information for scholars in the field.' Ken Rasmussen, Faculty of Administration, University of Regina"