Radical Mandarin: The Memoirs of Escott Reid

by Escott Reid

Book Overview

In the golden age of Canadian diplomacy, during the government of Louis St Laurent and Lester Pearson, Escott Reid played a central role. In this memoir, he recalls some of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century and his own and Canada's role in them.

Reid's' child was steeped in Anglican religiosity and Upper Canadian Britishness. But as a teenager at Oakwood Collegiate and later as a university student at Toronto and Oxford,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802073654
• ISBN13: 9780802073655
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"