| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Bill Waiser. Saskatchewan: A New History. Photographs by John Perret. Calgary, Alberta: Fifth House. 2005. Pp. 563. $37.95.
This book provides an excellent account of Saskatchewan's historical development from the presettlement period of the late nineteenth century to the present. It ends with a consideration of some of the most daunting challenges the province faces for the future. The prose is lively and lucid. Bill Waiser has the innate ability (that so many scholars lack) to present historical information in such a way as to entertain as well as inform. This is particularly admirable in a survey study and it certainly earns the gratitude of the reader.	1
Waiser adeptly handles a great array of subjects. His knowledge and ostensible understanding of Saskatchewan's major political battles and his refreshing descriptions of the best known provincial leaders from Walter Scott and Ross Thatcher of the Liberal Party to Tommy Douglas, Allan Blakeney, and Roy Romanow of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation/New Democrats, to Grant Devine of the Conservatives are both insightful and engaging. Waiser has particular empathy for Douglas, the "extremely accessible leader," who regularly applied the "sheer force of his personality" to bring sound management to rural Saskatchewan and the economy at large while spearheading the drive to create the modern Medicare system. It must be emphasized, however, that this is much more than a political or even a politics-centered work. Native issues, farming and ranching, urban development, protest movements, prohibition, women's suffrage, economic depression, and war are nicely balanced by rural sports and culture and such things as the coming of mechanization, electricity, radio, and talking pictures.	. . .

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