**CANCELLED ** MONTREAL TRIPLE LAUNCH: Hubert Villeneuve, M. Max Hamon, and Gwyn Campbell

Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore, 2220 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, QC
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Join Hubert Villeneuve and Max Hamon for the launch of their respective new books, Teaching Anticommunism: Fred Schwarz and American Postwar Conservatism and The Audacity of His Enterprise: Louis Riel and the Métis Nation That Canada Never Was, 1840–1875. The two MQUP authors will also be joined by Gwyn Campbell, author of Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900 (Cambridge University Press).

Hubert Villeneuve is a historian and lawyer. He lives in Quebec City. M. Max Hamon is a lecturer and research affiliate at McGill University and a lecturer in the Department of History at Queen's University.

ABOUT THE BOOKS

Fred C. Schwarz (1913-2009) was an Australian-born medical doctor and evangelical preacher who settled in the United States in the early 1950s, where he founded the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade. His work as an anticommunist educator spanned five decades; his campaigns attracted large crowds, strengthened grassroots conservatism, and influenced political leaders. By the late 1950s, the Crusade had become one of the most important conservative organizations in America, turning numerous citizens into lifelong right-wing militants. In Teaching Anticommunism Hubert Villeneuve sheds light on Schwarz's fascinating career and organization, which left a distinct mark on the United States and was also active internationally. In addition to exploring the life and work of Schwarz, the book highlights the transnational dimension of US conservatism by outlining the Crusade's role in worldwide anticommunist networks that operated throughout the Cold War.

Louis Riel (1844-1885) was an iconic figure in Canadian history best known for his roles in the Red River Resistance of 1869 and the Northwest Resistance of 1885. A political leader of the Métis people of the Canadian Prairies, Riel is often portrayed as a rebel. Reconstructing his experiences in the Northwest, Quebec, and the worlds in between, Max Hamon revisits Riel's life through his own eyes, illuminating how he and the Métis were much more involved in state-making than historians have previously acknowledged. Questioning the drama of resistance, The Audacity of His Enterprise highlights Riel's part in the negotiations, petition claims, and legal battles that led to the formation of the state from the bottom up. Hamon examines Riel's early successes and his participation in the crafting of a new political environment in the Northwest and Canada. Choosing to end the book in 1875, at the pinnacle of Riel's successful career as a political leader, rather than at his death in 1885, Hamon sets out to recover Riel's agency, intentions, and imagination, all of which have until now been displaced by colonial narratives and the shadow of his execution.