William J. Buxton and James S. McLean Double Book Launch

Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore, 211 Rue Bernard Ouest, Montreal, QC
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McGill-Queen's University Press, the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, and the Concordia Media History Research Centre cordially invite you to the launch of Inside the NDP War Room, by James S. McLean, and Harold Innis and the North, by William J. Buxton.

Inside the NDP War Room takes readers behind the scenes to investigate the nature of credibility in the complex communicative game of election campaigns. James McLean considers the ways in which the idea of credibility is used to explain how messages are crafted and articulated, how journalists are implicated, and what the Canadian public needs to know about what is at stake in the competition for votes. He talks to insiders about their communication practices and strategies, and reflects upon the grand narratives and small opportunistic moments brought before the Canadian public when power is up for grabs. 

Harold Innis and the North: Harold Innis is widely understood as the proponent of the "Laurentian school" of historiography, which mapped Canadian development along an East-West axis. Harold Innis and the North turns the axis North-South by examining Innis's intense and abiding interest in the North, and providing new perspectives on this seminal figure in Canadian political economy and communication studies.