J. L. Granatstein

Jack Granatstein OCFRSC
Born	Jack Lawrence Granatstein (1939-05-21)May 21, 1939 Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Spouse	Elaine Granatstein (nee Hitchcock)
Awards	Officer of the Order of Canada Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Academic background
Alma mater	Royal Military College of Canada(BA) University of Toronto(MA) Duke University(PhD)
Thesis	The Conservative Party of Canada, 1939–1945(1966)
Doctoral advisor	Theodore Ropp
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	20th-centuryCanadian military history 20th-century Canadianpolitical history
Institutions	York University

Jack Lawrence GranatsteinOCFRSC(May 21, 1939) is a Canadianhistorianwho specializes in Canadian political andmilitary history.

Education

Born on May 21, 1939, inToronto,Ontario,Granatstein received a graduation diploma fromRoyal Military College Saint-Jeanin 1959, hisBachelor of Artsdegree from theRoyal Military College of Canadain 1961, hisMaster of Artsdegree from theUniversity of Torontoin 1962, and hisDoctor of Philosophydegree fromDuke Universityin 1966.

Career

Granatstein is author ofWho Killed Canadian History?and other books, includingYankee Go Home?,Who Killed The Canadian Military?,andVictory 1945(withDesmond Morton).

Granatstein served as director of theCanadian War MuseuminOttawafrom 1998 to 2001 supported the building of the museum's new home that opened in 2005.

Family

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

He later married Linda Grayson until her death in 2019.

Bibliography

• Best Little Army in the World(2015)HarperCollins,preview fromGoogle Books
• Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace(2002) overview of Canadian military history
  • Second Edition published 2011 with several new chapters about both Afghanistan and the effect of increased federal funding.
• Who Killed Canadian History?(1998) argues that national history has become too splintered for the nation's good;online
• Whose War Is It?(2007) critique of Canadian foreign policy and defence
• Who Killed the Canadian Military?(2004) critique of 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, 1939–1945political manoeuvres of the King government during World War IIonline
• The Ottawa Men: The Civil Service Mandarins, 1935–1957(1982)Oxford University Pressexamines the development of the federal civil service and its contribution to Canada's coming of age as a nation.online
  • reissued (2015)The Ottawa Menby Rock's Mills Press, with a new introduction surveying research since 1982, and more photographs.
• Mackenzie King(1975), for secondary studentsonline

See also

• List of Canadian historians
• Military history of Canada

Further reading

• 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 Review80.4 (1999): 676–686.online

External links

• Order of Canada citation,aGovernor General's Award
• Jack GranatsteinfromThe Canadian Encyclopedia
• online copies of his books