Ramsay Cook is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at York University and the former general editor of The Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

"This book is magnificently and tightly written, the best study of a political mind I have ever seen in Canada, documented, reasonable, and fair." - Bruce Hutchison "... an admirable study." - Times Literary Supplement "... a fascinating look at the Canadian political scene." - Montreal Gazette "Mr Cook has used [his sources] with utmost skill, never allowing the reader to feel burdened by his research, to produce a book which tells us more about Dafoe than we know about any other Canadian political mind of this century." - Canadian Forum "Skilfully organized, tightly written, readable, and illuminating, it is fair to Dafoe without being uncritical ... . All in all Professor Cook has made an important and welcome contribution to the historiography of twentieth-century Canadian politics." - Canadian Historical Review "... an excellent book, scholarly, informed and judicious ... . The author and the press have made a distinguished contribution both to the content and the quality of historical scholarship in Canada." - International Journal "The author has dexterously separated the essential from the non-essential, and he presents the essence of Dafoe with a directness of style and an economy of language which cannot be commended too highly. Other students will write complete biographies of Dafoe, but none will add much more that is significant to an understanding of his basic stock of ideas." - Dalhousie Review

Ramsay Cook is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at York University and the former general editor of The Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

"This book is magnificently and tightly written, the best study of a political mind I have ever seen in Canada, documented, reasonable, and fair." - Bruce Hutchison "... an admirable study." - Times Literary Supplement "... a fascinating look at the Canadian political scene." - Montreal Gazette "Mr Cook has used [his sources] with utmost skill, never allowing the reader to feel burdened by his research, to produce a book which tells us more about Dafoe than we know about any other Canadian political mind of this century." - Canadian Forum "Skilfully organized, tightly written, readable, and illuminating, it is fair to Dafoe without being uncritical ... . All in all Professor Cook has made an important and welcome contribution to the historiography of twentieth-century Canadian politics." - Canadian Historical Review "... an excellent book, scholarly, informed and judicious ... . The author and the press have made a distinguished contribution both to the content and the quality of historical scholarship in Canada." - International Journal "The author has dexterously separated the essential from the non-essential, and he presents the essence of Dafoe with a directness of style and an economy of language which cannot be commended too highly. Other students will write complete biographies of Dafoe, but none will add much more that is significant to an understanding of his basic stock of ideas." - Dalhousie Review

Ramsay Cook is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at York University and the former general editor of The Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

"This book is magnificently and tightly written, the best study of a political mind I have ever seen in Canada, documented, reasonable, and fair." - Bruce Hutchison "... an admirable study." - Times Literary Supplement "... a fascinating look at the Canadian political scene." - Montreal Gazette "Mr Cook has used [his sources] with utmost skill, never allowing the reader to feel burdened by his research, to produce a book which tells us more about Dafoe than we know about any other Canadian political mind of this century." - Canadian Forum "Skilfully organized, tightly written, readable, and illuminating, it is fair to Dafoe without being uncritical ... . All in all Professor Cook has made an important and welcome contribution to the historiography of twentieth-century Canadian politics." - Canadian Historical Review "... an excellent book, scholarly, informed and judicious ... . The author and the press have made a distinguished contribution both to the content and the quality of historical scholarship in Canada." - International Journal "The author has dexterously separated the essential from the non-essential, and he presents the essence of Dafoe with a directness of style and an economy of language which cannot be commended too highly. Other students will write complete biographies of Dafoe, but none will add much more that is significant to an understanding of his basic stock of ideas." - Dalhousie Review