James Laxer is the bestselling and award-winning author of nineteen books, including Stalking the Elephant: My Discovery of America (published by the New Press in New York as Discovering America) and The Border: Canada, the U.S. and Dispatches from the Forty-ninth Parallel. A professor of political science at York University in Toronto and one of Canada’s leading political thinkers, Laxer is frequently consulted for commentary on current national and global issues by the media. He lives in Toronto.
Praise for Discovering America:
"Laxer records his vignettes with humour and verve. This is quality
reporting.”
Thomas Axworthy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University
"Laxer has written a superb narrative of the causes, course and
legacy of the war of 1812."Winnipeg Free Press
"Tecumseh & Brock is comprehensive but not burdensome, a banquet of
facts that can be enjoyed along with being instructive. Laxer
proves Canadian history doesn’t have to be dull, particularly when
told through the lives of people who lived it."Toronto Star
"[Laxer] displays an authoritative and sympathetic grasp of Native
history…Tecumseh and Brock promises a valuable alternative to the
notion that history is invariably written by the victors."—National
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