Ebook: Joseph Roberts Smallwood: Masthead Newfoundlander, 1900-1949

The making of the most influential Newfoundland politician of the twentieth century and a builder of modern Canada.

There are multiple J.R. Smallwoods, but the aspiring and ambitious figure presented in this biography stands apart. Melvin Baker and Peter Neary use the largely untapped sources of Smallwood's own papers and his extensive journalistic writing to add a documentary basis to what is known or conjectured about the first five decades of Smallwood's remarkable life, both public and private.