Participant/Observer: An Unconventional Life in Politics and Academia

Some engage in politics; others observe it, but the author of this political memoir is among the few that have had the chance to do both. In these pages, Henry Milner shares his experiences as a student and community activist, an anglophone insider and strategist in the Parti Québécois, and a close observer over several decades of social democracy in practice in Scandinavia and beyond.

Milner was born in a bunker in American occupied Germany. His parents, who had survived the war in the Sovi...