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ADAMS , IAN Poverty Wall, the
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970. First. Soft Cover. 5-1/2 x 8 " Softcover 1970 1st ... Very Good Plus condition ... Never opened, Never marked ... usual page age darkening else Nice Clean Gift Giving Quality ... 154 pages ... One third of the nation of Canada , in the late 1960s , lived in poverty ... This is an angry book, about this third of Canadian citizens ... It is an indictment of the stupidity , brutality , and inhumanity ... of the wealthy classes .. and the governments and corporations they control ... The Poverty Wall is built of racism , greed, and the misery of millions ... Ian Adams emigrated to Canada , all alone , as a teenager , from his native Africa , after being raised in what is now Tanzania , Africa ; in Great Britain and in Pakistan ... In the 1960s he wrote for daily newspapers in Toronto, Winnipeg & Montreal, and became a war reporter for Maclean's Magazine , travelling extensively in Vietnam during the height of the war ... as well as in Latin America , and in the Middle East ... In 1977 his first book S Portrait of a Spy became a huge controversial best seller ... so controversial , that Adams was sued for libel by the former head of the Russian Desk of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service ... and he became the only novelist in the English-speaking world ever ordered to court to reveal his sources for a novel ... His defence became such a cause celebre amongst writers and artists across Canada and the United States, that the case was eventually setteled out of court ... He has written several books , as well as political thrillers ... as well as movie screenplays and numerous scripts for television ... " The Poverty Wall " ... by Ian Adams ... published by McClelland & Stewart , Toronto ... 1970 ... First Edition Softcover ... ***. Very Good Plus .
Offered for US$ 15.00 by: Cavendish International Books & Music - Book number: 5268
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