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'''Jack Lawrence Granatstein''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|FRSC}} (May 21, 1939) is a Canadian [[historian]] who specializes in Canadian political and [[military history]].<ref>"Jack Granatstein, 'a driving force'" Beaver (Feb/Mar 2005), Vol. 85, Issue 1.</ref><ref>See [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/jack-granatstein Jack Granatstein] from [[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]</ref>
'''Jack Lawrence Granatstein''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|FRSC}} (May 21, 1939) is a Canadian [[historian]] who specializes in Canadian political and [[military history]].<ref>"Jack Granatstein, 'a driving force'" Beaver (Feb/Mar 2005), Vol. 85, Issue 1.</ref><ref>See [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/jack-granatstein Jack Granatstein] from [[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]</ref>


==Education==
==Education==
Born on May 21, 1939, in [[Toronto]], Ontario,<ref name=contempauthors>{{Cite web|title=Granatstein, J(ack) L(awrence) 1939–|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/granatstein-jack-lawrence-1939|access-date=2021-09-29|website=[[Contemporary Authors]]}}</ref> into a Jewish family, Granatstein received a graduation diploma from [[Royal Military College Saint-Jean]] in 1959, his [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from the [[Royal Military College of Canada]] in 1961, his [[Master of Arts]] degree from the [[University of Toronto]] in 1962, and his [[Doctor of Philosophy]] degree from [[Duke University]] in 1966.<ref name=contempauthors/>
Born on May 21, 1939, in [[Toronto]], Ontario,<ref name=contempauthors>{{Cite web|title=Granatstein, J(ack) L(awrence) 1939–|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/granatstein-jack-lawrence-1939|access-date=2021-09-29|website=[[Contemporary Authors]]}}</ref> Granatstein received a graduation diploma from [[Royal Military College Saint-Jean]] in 1959, his [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from the [[Royal Military College of Canada]] in 1961, his [[Master of Arts]] degree from the [[University of Toronto]] in 1962, and his [[Doctor of Philosophy]] degree from [[Duke University]] in 1966.<ref name=contempauthors/>


==Career==
==Career==
Granatstein served in the [[Canadian Army]] from 1956 to 1966. He then taught at [[York University]] until 1996 where he is Distinguished Research Professor of History Emeritus.


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Granatstein is author of ''[[Who Killed Canadian History?]]'' and other books, including ''Yankee Go Home?'', ''[[Who Killed the Canadian Military? (book)|Who Killed The Canadian Military?]]'', and ''Victory 1945'' (with [[Desmond Morton (historian)|Desmond Morton]]).
Granatstein is an outspoken defender of traditional narrative history in lectures, books, print, and broadcast media. Perhaps his best known work is ''[[Who Killed Canadian History?]]'', which expressed his alarm at the widespread ignorance of history among students, and the distortions he complained were perpetrated by a new generation of social historians. He wrote of an ideological war waged inside university history departments:
{{blockquote|As the old white males rallied themselves and fought back, the resulting war produced heavy casualties, much bloodshed, and vast expenditures of time and effort. The political historians believed that narrative was important, that chronology mattered, and that the study of the past could not neglect the personalities of the leaders and the nations they lead. The social historians had no interest in the history of the "elites" and almost none in political history, except to denounce repressiveness of Canadian governments and business.&nbsp;... Blame had to be allocated. Canada was guilty of genocide against the Indians, the bombing of Germany, the ecological rape of the landscape, and so on. Their aim was to use history, or their version of it, to cure white males of their sense of superiority.<ref>Granatstein, ''Who Killed Canadian History'' (1998) p 59 quoted in {{cite book|editor=Peter Farrugia|title=The River of History: Trans-national and Trans-disciplinary Perspectives on the Immanence of the Past|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2T9o4m9avYC&pg=PA9|year=2005|publisher=U of Calgary Press|page=9|isbn=9781552381601}}</ref>}}


Granatstein served as director of the [[Canadian War Museum]] in [[Ottawa]] from 1998 to 2001 supported the building of the museum's new home that opened in 2005. <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/jack-granatstein |title=Jack Granatstein }}</ref>
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Granatstein is the author of over sixty other books, including ''Yankee Go Home?'', ''[[Who Killed the Canadian Military? (book)|Who Killed The Canadian Military?]]'', and ''Victory 1945'' (with [[Desmond Morton (historian)|Desmond Morton]]). ''The Generals'' won the [[J.W. Dafoe Prize]] and the [[UBC Medal for Canadian Biography]]. ''The Last Good War'' was awarded the Canadian Authors Association's 2005 Lela Common Award for Canadian History.


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==Family==
Granatstein was a member of the RMC Board of Governors and is Chair of the Council for [[Canadian Security in the 21st Century]].
Granatstein married Elaine Hitchcock in 1961 until her death in 2012. They had two children, Carole and Michael.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/elaine-granatstein-obituary?id=41507388 | title=Elaine GRANATSTEIN Obituary (2012) - the Globe and Mail | website=[[Legacy.com]] }}</ref>


He later married Linda Grayson until her death in 2019. <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/linda-grayson-obituary?id=41237626 | title=Linda GRAYSON Obituary (1947 - 2019) - Toronto, ON - the Globe and Mail | website=[[Legacy.com]] }}</ref>
Granatstein has also been involved in television coverage of political and military events. On June 6, 1994, he was part of the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]]'s coverage of the 50th anniversary of [[Normandy Landings|D-Day]], as the network's chief correspondent, [[Peter Mansbridge]] got expert help in the commentary from Granatstein. Granatstein helped Mansbridge again on May 8, 1995, during the CBC's coverage of the 50th anniversary of [[VE Day]]. He reprised the same role on the 60th and 65th anniversaries of D-Day and V-E Day.

Granatstein served as the head of the [[Canadian War Museum]] in [[Ottawa]] from 1998 to 2001 and was a driving force behind the building of the museum's new home that opened in 2005. He currently sits on the Advisory Council and is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the [[Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute]].

==Honours==
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The [[Royal Society of Canada]] awarded him the [[J.&nbsp;B. Tyrrell Historical Medal]] (1992) for "outstanding work in the history of Canada". In 1996, the [[Conference of Defence Associations Institute]] named him winner of the [[Vimy Award]].

In 1996, he became an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]], and he won the [[Canada's National History Society|National History Society]]'s [[Pierre Berton]] Prize in 2004 and the Organization for the History of Canada's National History Award in 2006. He has received honorary degrees from the [[University of Western Ontario]], the [[University of Calgary]], as well as [[Memorial University of Newfoundland]], [[McMaster University]], [[Niagara University]], and [[Toronto Metropolitan University|Ryerson University]].

He was awarded the [[C.P. Stacey Prize]], in collaboration with Dean Oliver, in 2011 for their '' The Oxford Companion to Canadian Military History''.

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==Family==
Jack Granatstein is a descendant of Mendel Granatstein, a Polish Jew, who emigrated to Toronto in 1880 where he became a successful business owner in the junk and later textile industry. He became the first Jew to own a home (1895 at 42 St. George Street since demolished) in Toronto.


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
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** Second Edition published 2011 with several new chapters about both Afghanistan and the effect of increased federal funding.
** Second Edition published 2011 with several new chapters about both Afghanistan and the effect of increased federal funding.
* ''[[Who Killed Canadian History?]]'' (1998) argues that national history has become too splintered for the nation's good; [https://archive.org/details/whokilledcanadia0000gran_m5n5 online]
* ''[[Who Killed Canadian History?]]'' (1998) argues that national history has become too splintered for the nation's good; [https://archive.org/details/whokilledcanadia0000gran_m5n5 online]
* ''[[Whose War Is It?]]'' (2007) critique of Canadian foreign policy and defense
* ''[[Whose War Is It?]]'' (2007) critique of Canadian foreign policy and defence
* ''[[Who Killed the Canadian Military?]]'' (2004) critique of the Canadian military
* ''[[Who Killed the Canadian Military?]]'' (2004) critique of the Canadian military
* ''Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders'' (1999) with Norman Hillmer.
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* ''Canada's War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939-1945'' political maneuvers of the King government during World War II [https://archive.org/details/canadaswarpoliti0000gran online]
* ''Yankee Go Home?: Canadians and Anti-Americanism'' (1996) Granatstein maintains that what began as a justifiable fear of invasion eventually became a tool of the economic and political elites bent on preserving their power. At first, anti-Americanism was largely the Tory way of keeping pro-British attitudes uppermost in the minds of Canadians. Later, with the right wing embracing the free-trade deal, it became the most important weapon of the nationalist left.
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* ''The Ottawa Men: The Civil Service Mandarins, 1935-1957'' (1982) [[Oxford University Press]] examines the development of the federal civil service and its contribution to Canada's coming of age as a nation. [https://archive.org/details/ottawamencivilse0000gran online]
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* ''Canada's War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939–1945'' political manoeuvres of the King government during World War II [https://archive.org/details/canadaswarpoliti0000gran online]
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* ''The Ottawa Men: The Civil Service Mandarins, 1935–1957'' (1982) [[Oxford University Press]] examines the development of the federal civil service and its contribution to Canada's coming of age as a nation. [https://archive.org/details/ottawamencivilse0000gran online]
** reissued (2015) [https://www.rocksmillspress.com/the-ottawa-men.html The Ottawa Men] by Rock's Mills Press, with a new introduction surveying research since 1982, and more photographs.
** reissued (2015) [https://www.rocksmillspress.com/the-ottawa-men.html The Ottawa Men] by Rock's Mills Press, with a new introduction surveying research since 1982, and more photographs.
* ''Mackenzie King'' (1975), for secondary students [https://archive.org/details/wlmackenzieking0000gran online]
* ''Mackenzie King'' (1975), for secondary students [https://archive.org/details/wlmackenzieking0000gran online]
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== Further reading==
== Further reading==
* Jack Granatstein, 'a driving force'" ''Beaver'' (Feb/Mar 2005), Vol. 85, Issue 1
* Jack Granatstein, 'a driving force'" ''Beaver'' (Feb/Mar 2005), Vol. 85, Issue 1
* Palmer, Bryan D. "Of silences and trenches: A dissident view of Granatstein's meaning." ''Canadian Historical Review'' 80.4 (1999): 676-686. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/590558/summary online]
* Palmer, Bryan D. "Of silences and trenches: A dissident view of Granatstein's meaning." ''Canadian Historical Review'' 80.4 (1999): 676–686. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/590558/summary online]


==External links==
==External links==
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[[Category:Jewish historians]]
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[[Category:Critics of multiculturalism]]
[[Category:Critics of multiculturalism]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian military personnel]]

Latest revision as of 21:16, 21 April 2024

Jack Granatstein
OC FRSC
Born
Jack Lawrence Granatstein

(1939-05-21) May 21, 1939 (age 84)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
SpouseElaine Granatstein (nee Hitchcock)
AwardsOfficer of the Order of Canada
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Conservative Party of Canada, 1939–1945 (1966)
Doctoral advisorTheodore Ropp[1]
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsYork University

Jack Lawrence Granatstein OC FRSC (May 21, 1939) is a Canadian historian who specializes in Canadian political and military history.[2][3]

Education[edit]

Born on May 21, 1939, in Toronto, Ontario,[4] Granatstein received a graduation diploma from Royal Military College Saint-Jean in 1959, his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1961, his Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1962, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Duke University in 1966.[4]

Career[edit]

Granatstein is author of Who Killed Canadian History? and other books, including Yankee Go Home?, Who Killed The Canadian Military?, and Victory 1945 (with Desmond Morton).

Granatstein served as director of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa from 1998 to 2001 supported the building of the museum's new home that opened in 2005. [5]

Family[edit]

Granatstein married Elaine Hitchcock in 1961 until her death in 2012. They had two children, Carole and Michael.[6]

He later married Linda Grayson until her death in 2019. [7]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Best Little Army in the World (2015) HarperCollins, preview from Google Books
  • Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace (2002) overview of Canadian military history
    • Second Edition published 2011 with several new chapters about both Afghanistan and the effect of increased federal funding.
  • Who Killed Canadian History? (1998) argues that national history has become too splintered for the nation's good; online
  • Whose War Is It? (2007) critique of Canadian foreign policy and defence
  • Who Killed the Canadian Military? (2004) critique of the Canadian military
  • Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders (1999) with Norman Hillmer.
  • Yankee Go Home?: Canadians and Anti-Americanism (1996) Granatstein maintains that what began as a justifiable fear of invasion eventually became a tool of the economic and political elites bent on preserving their power. At first, anti-Americanism was largely the Tory way of keeping pro-British attitudes uppermost in the minds of Canadians. Later, with the right wing embracing the free-trade deal, it became the most important weapon of the nationalist left.
  • Canada's War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939–1945 political manoeuvres of the King government during World War II online
  • The Ottawa Men: The Civil Service Mandarins, 1935–1957 (1982) Oxford University Press examines the development of the federal civil service and its contribution to Canada's coming of age as a nation. online
    • reissued (2015) The Ottawa Men by Rock's Mills Press, with a new introduction surveying research since 1982, and more photographs.
  • Mackenzie King (1975), for secondary students online

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Granatstein, J. L. (1967). Politics of Survival: The Conservative Party of Canada, 1939–1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. ix. ISBN 978-1-4875-8603-4. JSTOR 10.3138/j.ctv5j02k4.
  2. ^ "Jack Granatstein, 'a driving force'" Beaver (Feb/Mar 2005), Vol. 85, Issue 1.
  3. ^ See Jack Granatstein from The Canadian Encyclopedia
  4. ^ a b "Granatstein, J(ack) L(awrence) 1939–". Contemporary Authors. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
  5. ^ "Jack Granatstein".
  6. ^ "Elaine GRANATSTEIN Obituary (2012) - the Globe and Mail". Legacy.com.
  7. ^ "Linda GRAYSON Obituary (1947 - 2019) - Toronto, ON - the Globe and Mail". Legacy.com.

Further reading[edit]

  • Jack Granatstein, 'a driving force'" Beaver (Feb/Mar 2005), Vol. 85, Issue 1
  • Palmer, Bryan D. "Of silences and trenches: A dissident view of Granatstein's meaning." Canadian Historical Review 80.4 (1999): 676–686. online

External links[edit]

Awards
Preceded by J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal
1992 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Preceded by Vimy Award
1996 		Succeeded by
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