Author(s)	Bernie Lucht
Publisher	House of Anansi Press
Publication Year	2007

ISBN: 9780887842177

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The Lost Massey Lectures

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The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada’s preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years — unavailable to the public in any form. Important thinkers whose Massey Lectures are lamentably out of print include the likes of Martin Luther King, Jr., John Kenneth Galbraith, Jane Jacobs, Paul Goodman, and Eric Kierans. Each of these lecturers spoke on a subject at the heart of their intellectual and spiritual concerns — King on race and prejudice, Galbraith on economics and poverty, Jacobs on Canadian cities and Quebec separatism, Goodman on the moral ambiguity of America, Kierans on globalism and the nation-state — and their words are not only of considerable historical significance but remain hugely relevant to the problems we face today. At last, a selection of these lost lectures is available to a world so hungry for, and yet in such short supply of, innovative ideas. The Lost Massey Lectures includes an introduction by Bernie Lucht, who has been the executive producer of CBC Radio’s Ideas and the Massey Lectures since 1984.

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Bernie Lucht

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was a Canadian-born American economist, public servant, and writer. He was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 1997.

Paul Goodman (1911-1972) was an American writer, teacher, and social critic.

Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was an urban activist and writer. A Canadian citizen from 1974, she was named an officer of the Order of Canada in 1996.

Eric W. Kierans (1914-2004) was a Canadian economist, business leader, politician, and writer.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was a Baptist minister and a key leader in the American civil-rights movement. Martin Luther King Day was established as a U.S. holiday in 1986.

Chapter	Contributors	Pages	Year	Price
Introduction In this introduction, Lucht explains how this collection reunites five early Massey Lectures from 1965 to 1983, discussing global poverty, American moral ambiguity, non-violent protest, Canadian … View	Bernie Lucht	10	2007	$1.00
The Underdeveloped County In this lecture, delivered around 1965 and published in 2007, Galbraith examines the economics and politics of the developing world. View	John Galbraith	61	2007	$6.10
The Moral Ambiguity of America In this lecutre, Goodman examines the structural flaws in American political pluralism during the 1960s. View	Paul Goodman	107	2007	$10.70
Conscience for Change In this lecture from 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. examines the American civil rights struggle of 1955 to 1965, non-violent protest, and his opposition to the Vietnam War. View	Martin Luther King Jr.	55	2007	$5.50
Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Association In this 1980 lecture, Jacobs examines Norway’s peaceful separation from Sweden in 1905 as a precedent for the Quebec sovereignty debate. She traces how Montreal reshaped Quebec into a … View	Jane Jacobs	75	2007	$7.50
Globalism and the Nation-State In this 1983 lecture, Kierans examines Canada’s economic vulnerability to American dominance and the tension between national sovereignty and multinational corporate power. View	Eric Kierans	94	2007	$9.40

The Lost Massey Lectures

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Bernie Lucht

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