Jack Granatstein
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Jack Lawrence Granatstein

(1939-05-21) May 21, 1939
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Elaine Granatstein (nee Hitchcock)

Officer of the Order of Canada
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

The Conservative Party of Canada, 1939–1945 (1966)

Theodore Ropp[1]

History

York University

Education[edit]

Born on May 21, 1939, in Toronto, Ontario,[4] Granatstein received a graduation diploma from Royal Military College Saint-Jean in 1959, his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1961, his Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1962, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Duke University in 1966.[4]

Career[edit]

Granatstein is author of Who Killed Canadian History? and other books, including Yankee Go Home?, Who Killed The Canadian Military?, and Victory 1945 (with Desmond Morton).


Granatstein served as director of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa from 1998 to 2001 supported the building of the museum's new home that opened in 2005. [5]

Family[edit]

Granatstein married Elaine Hitchcock in 1961 until her death in 2012. They had two children, Carole and Michael.[6]


He later married Linda Grayson until her death in 2019. [7]

(2015) HarperCollins, preview from Google Books

Best Little Army in the World

Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace

(1998) argues that national history has become too splintered for the nation's good; online

Who Killed Canadian History?

(2007) critique of Canadian foreign policy and defence

Whose War Is It?

(2004) critique of the Canadian military

Who Killed the Canadian Military?

Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders (1999) with Norman Hillmer.

Yankee Go Home?: Canadians and Anti-Americanism (1996) Granatstein maintains that what began as a justifiable fear of invasion eventually became a tool of the economic and political elites bent on preserving their power. At first, anti-Americanism was largely the Tory way of keeping pro-British attitudes uppermost in the minds of Canadians. Later, with the right wing embracing the free-trade deal, it became the most important weapon of the nationalist left.

Canada's War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939–1945 political manoeuvres of the King government during World War II

online

The Ottawa Men: The Civil Service Mandarins, 1935–1957

The Ottawa Men

Mackenzie King (1975), for secondary students

online

List of Canadian historians

Military history of Canada

Jack Granatstein, 'a driving force'" Beaver (Feb/Mar 2005), Vol. 85, Issue 1

Palmer, Bryan D. "Of silences and trenches: A dissident view of Granatstein's meaning." Canadian Historical Review 80.4 (1999): 676–686.

online

a Governor General's Award

Order of Canada citation

from The Canadian Encyclopedia

Jack Granatstein

online copies of his books