Review
??Fearful Symmetry is an audacious, provocative and impressively researched volume. In setting out a new way of looking at the country`s development, it will open more eyes than it closes." -?Lawrence Martin, Globe and Mail
"It`s an attack on everything I believe, so it`s very bracing and interesting.... He`s saying that Canadian liberalism has damaged Canada, and as the Liberal Party leader I have to disagree. But it`s very intelligent and it`s very important to take your adversaries seriously, so I`m taking him seriously.") "It`s an attack on everything I believe, so it`s very bracing and interesting.... He`s saying that Canadian liberalism has damaged Canada, and as the Liberal Party leader I have to disagree. But it`s very intelligent and it`s very important to take your adversaries seriously, so I`m taking him seriously." - Michael Ignatieff, Foreign Policy
?[O]ne of the most insightful books ever written about this country?.
I know I am prone to exaggeration which is probably why I was able to have a 15-year career in politics, but I do not exaggerate when I say this is the best book I have ever read about our country.? ? Monte Solberg, Sun Media
"Founder of the Halifax-based Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Brian Lee Crowley has written a courageous book with absolutely unique analysis and interpretation. Part lament, part celebration, Fearful Symmetry is most of all a profoundly optimistic book. Why? Rush to read it as soon as you can. " - Globe and Mail
Product Description
In the 1960s, Canada began a seismic shift away from the core policies and values upon which the country had been built. A nation of ?makers? transformed itself into a nation of ?takers.? Crowley argues that the time has come for the pendulum to swing back?back to a time when Canadians were less willing to rely on the state for support; when people went where the work was rather than waiting for the work to come to them.
Thought-provoking, meticulously detailed and ultimately polarizing, Fearful Symmetry is required reading for anyone who is interested in where this country began, where it?s been, and where it?s going.
