{"product_id":"9781926836348","title":"Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist","description":"Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a great yarn. In \u003cem\u003eChampagne and Meatballs \u003c\/em\u003e— a memoir written not long before his death in Moscow in 1984 — we meet a cigar-smoking rogue who was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a political meeting. His stories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combat and camaraderie at the front lines in World War II, and of surviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compelling reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe manuscript of \u003cem\u003eChampagne and Meatballs\u003c\/em\u003e was brought to light and edited by historian Larry Hannant, who has written a fascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the text. Brash, irreverent, informative, and entertaining, Whyte's tale is history and biography accompanied by a wink of his eye.","brand":"Athabasca University Press and Canadian Committee on Labour History","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46521721389297,"sku":"9781926836348","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781926836348_p0.jpg?v=1765869289","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781926836348","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}