Thank you for putting forward Ill Fares the Land, FP. The immediate postwar period of growth of social democratic values was also a period of economic growth making it all possible. Does Judt go into the political economy of the period?
Unfortunately, our blessed library does not carry the book, and I would want to know the depth of Judt's analysis before springing for the purchase of a copy (Hardcover only?)
Cambridge library broke down and bought the late Tony Judt's Ill Fares the Land.
Also purchased by the library (they had not planned on it either) Lawrence Martin's Harperland: The politics of Control. "Martin probes the secrecy, the muzzling of opponents, the workings of an exhaustive vetting system...The central question, Martin writes, (about this guy who once complained of Ottawa's 'democratic deficit) is whether his excesses will solidigy his rule or be his undoing."
And heading up the National Citizen's Coalition he also talked about building a firewall between Alberta and the rest of the country. Works such as this are badly needed.