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Jack Granatstein
OC FRSC
Jack Granatstein OC FRSC
Born	Jack Lawrence Granatstein; May 21, 1939 (age 84); Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Spouse	Elaine Granatstein (nee Hitchcock)
Awards	Officer of the Order of Canada; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Academic background
Alma mater	Royal Military College of Canada (BA); University of Toronto (MA); Duke University (PhD);
Thesis	The Conservative Party of Canada, 1939–1945 (1966)
Doctoral advisor	Theodore Ropp
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	20th-century Canadian military history; 20th-century Canadian political history;
Institutions	York University

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

Education

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

Granatstein is author ofWho 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

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

Bibliography

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.
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

References

^ 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.
^ "Jack Granatstein, 'a driving force'" Beaver (Feb/Mar 2005), Vol. 85, Issue 1.
^ See Jack Granatstein from The Canadian Encyclopedia
^ ^a ^b "Granatstein, J(ack) L(awrence) 1939–". Contemporary Authors. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
^ https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/jack-granatstein. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/elaine-granatstein-obituary?id=41507388. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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Awards
Preceded by Hubert Charbonneau	J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal 1992	Succeeded by Cornelius J. Jaenen
Preceded by Jacques Légaré	J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal 1992	Succeeded by Cornelius J. Jaenen
Preceded by Roméo Dallaire	Vimy Award 1996	Succeeded by Brian Dickson

[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

[contempauthors-4] "Granatstein, J(ack) L(awrence) 1939–". Contemporary Authors. Retrieved September 29, 2021.

[5] ttps://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/jack-granatstein. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[6] ttps://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/elaine-granatstein-obituary?id=41507388. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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-Granatstein is author of''[[Who Killed Canadian History?]]''. In it, he wrote of an ideological war waged inside university history departments:
+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]]).
-{{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 is the author of 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.
 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}}</ref>

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