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Joseph Roberts Smallwood - Masthead Newfoundlander, 1900-1949 (Hardcover)
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Joseph Roberts Smallwood - Masthead Newfoundlander, 1900-1949 (Hardcover)
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No other figure, historical or political, features more prominently
in recent Newfoundland history than Joey Smallwood. During his long
career in Newfoundland politics, Smallwood used the literary,
rhetorical, and theatrical skills honed in the first five decades
of his life to create a distinct and celebrated persona. He told
his own story in his lively autobiography, I Chose Canada,
published in 1973 only a year after he left office. Talented,
venturesome, and above all resilient, he was no ordinary Joe.
Smallwood was born in Gambo, Bonavista Bay, but grew up in St
John's. Leaving school at fifteen, he quickly established himself
as a journalist and as a publicist for Sir William Coaker's
Fishermen's Protective Union. In the early 1920s Smallwood
sojourned twice in New York, where he planned a Newfoundland labour
party. Ambition, however, led him to support the Liberal Party of
Sir Richard Squires. Defeated as a candidate in the general
election of June 1932, he next promoted producer and consumer
cooperatives, but with mixed results. In 1937 he edited The Book of
Newfoundland and thereafter enjoyed great success on the radio as
"The Barrelman." The book culminates with Smallwood's adoption of
the cause of Confederation and his swearing in on 1 April 1949 as
premier of the new Province of Newfoundland. There are multiple
J.R. Smallwoods, but the aspiring and ambitious figure presented in
this biography stands apart. Melvin Baker and Peter Neary use the
largely untapped sources of Smallwood's own papers and his
extensive journalistic writing to add a documentary basis to what
is known or conjectured about the first five decades of Smallwood's
remarkable life, both public and private.
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