Andre Laurendeau was the most widely respected French-Canadian
nationalist of his generation. The story of his life is to a
striking degree also the story of French-Canadian nationalism from
the 1930s to the 1960s, that period of massive societal change when
Quebec evolved from a traditional to a modern society. The most
insightful intellectual voice of the nationalist movement, he was
at the tumultuous centre of events as a young separatist in the
1930s; an anti-conscription activist and reform-minded provincial
politician in the 1940s; and an influential journalist, editor of
the Montreal daily Le Devoir, in the 1950s. At the same time he
played an important role in Quebec's cultural life both as a
novelist and playwright and as a well-known radio and television
personality. In tracing his life story, this biography sheds
indispensable light not only on the development of Laurendeau's own
nationalist thought, but on his people's continuing struggle to
preserve the national values that make them distinct.
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