Education of a Canadian - My Life as a Scholar and Activist

Gordon Skilling writes candidly of each way station in this personal odyssey: the idealism of his student years at the University of Toronto and Oxford, his presence in Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Nazi, and later Soviet, invasions, his opposition to the Marshall Plan, NATO, and U.S. intervention in Korea, the effect of McCarthyism on his academic life, his involvement with the Czech and Slovak dissident movements and finally the Velvet Revolution.