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The many published volumes of the writings of Harold Adams Innis testify to his extraordinary grasp of the ordering principles of human history. The notes that he left at the time of his death provide a new and revealing profile of the inner workings of this restless and relentless mind.

William Christian has selected some three hundred letters, postcards, telegrams, and journal entries which reveal much about Grant – both the troubled man and the daring thinker.

William Christian has restored material from the broadcast version of the lectures. His introduction places Grant's interest in Nietzsche in the perspective of Grant's developing analysis of technology and draws extensively on Grant's unpublished notebooks and lectures.

William Christian has restored the text of the original 1959 edition. He has supplemented it with material from the broadcast version of the lectures, including a ninth lecture, not previously published, in which Grant responded to listeners' questions.

Grant was a prolific writer, engaged by subjects ranging from Canadian politics to ancient philosophy. The first book to bring together a comprehensive selection of his work, allowing readers to sample the whole range of his interests in one volume.

George Grant's Lament for a Nation and Technology and Empire inspired a generation of Canadians. This readable biography revels in the life of a fascinating religious and political thinker, warts, gossip and all.