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Jack
Lawrence Granatstein was born in Toronto on 21 May 1939. He attended
Toronto public schools, Le College militaire royal de St-Jean (Grad.
Dipl., 1959), the Royal Military College, Kingston (B.A., 1961), the
University of Toronto (M.A., 1962), and Duke University (Ph.D., 1966).
He served in the Canadian Army (1956-66), then joined the History
Department at York University, Toronto (1966-95) where, after taking
early retirement, he is Distinguished Research Professor of History
Emeritus. He was the Rowell Jackman Fellow at the Canadian Institute
of International Affairs (1996-2000) and is a member of the Royal
Military College of Canada Board of Governors (1997- ). From 1 July
1998 to 30 June 2000, he was the Director and CEO of the Canadian War
Museum in Ottawa. He was then Special Adviser to the Director of the
Museum (2000-01) and is now chair of the Museum’s Advisory Council
(2001- ).
Granatstein has held
the Canada Council's Killam senior fellowship twice (1982-4, 1991-3),
was editor of the Canadian Historical Review (1981-84), and was
a founder of the Organization for the History of Canada. He has been a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1982 and in 1992 was
awarded the Society’s J.B. Tyrrell Historical Gold Medal "for
outstanding work in the history of Canada." His book, The Generals
(1993), won the J.W. Dafoe Prize and the UBC Medal for Canadian
Biography. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by Memorial
University of Newfoundland (1993), the University of Calgary (1994),
Ryerson Polytechnic University (1999), the University of Western
Ontario (2000), McMaster University (2000), and Niagara University
(2004). He is a Senior Fellow of Massey College (2000- ). The
Conference of Defence Associations Institute named him winner of the
Vimy Award “for achievement and effort in the field of Canadian
defence and security” (1996). Canada’s National History Society named
him the winner of the Pierre Berton Award for popular history (2004),
and he has been an Officer of the Order of Canada since 1997.
Granatstein writes
on 20th Century Canadian national history--the military, defence and
foreign policy, Canadian-American relations, the public service,
politics, and the universities. He comments regularly on historical
questions, defence, and public affairs in the press and on radio and
television; he provided the historical commentary on the CBC's
coverage of the 50th and 60th anniversaries of D-Day (1994,
2004), V-E Day (1995), and V-J Day (1995); and he speaks frequently
here and abroad. He has been a historical consultant on many films,
most recently “Canada’s War” (Yap Films, 2004).
In
1995 he served as one of three commissioners on the Special Commission
on the Restructuring of the Canadian Forces Reserves (chaired by the
Rt. Hon. Brian Dickson, former Chief Justice of Canada), and in 1997,
he advised the Minister of National Defence on the future of the
Canadian Forces. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the
Dominion Institute, an adjunct fellow of the University of Calgary’s
Centre for Military and Strategic Studies (1997- ), and Chair of the
Council for Canadian Security in the 21st Century (2001-4).
He is both a Board member (2004- ) and the Chair of the Advisory
Council of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (2001-
).
His many scholarly
and popular books include The Politics of Survival: The
Conservative Party of Canada 1939-45 (1967), Peacekeeping:
International Challenge and Canadian Response (1968), Canada's
War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939-45 (1975,
1990), Ties that Bind: Canadian-American Relations in Wartime
(1975), Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada
(1977, 1985), American Dollars/Canadian Prosperity (1978), A
Man of Influence: Norman Robertson and Canadian Statecraft (1981),
The Ottawa Men: The Civil Service Mandarins, 1935-57 (1982,
1998), Bloody Victory: Canadians and the D-Day Campaign (1984,
1994), The Great Brain Robbery: Canada's Universities on the Road
to Ruin (1984), Sacred Trust: Brian Mulroney and the
Conservative Party in Power (1985), Canada 1957-1967: The
Years of Uncertainty and Innovation (1986), The Collins
Dictionary of Canadian History (1986), How Britain's Weakness
Forced Canada into the Arms of the United States (1989),
Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War (1989), A
Nation Forged in Fire: Canadians and the Second World War (1989),
Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy
(1990,1991) Spy Wars: Canada and Espionage from Gouzenko to
Glasnost (1990, 1992), Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese
in World War II (1990; Japanese ed., 1994), For Better or For
Worse: Canada and the United States to the 1990s (1991, 1992; new
expanded edition, Thomson Nelson, 2006), War and Peacekeeping:
From South Africa to the Gulf--Canada's Limited Wars (1991),
Dictionary of Canadian Military History (1992, 1994), The
Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World
War (1993, 1995; new edition, University of Calgary Press, 2005),
Empire to Umpire: Canadian Foreign Policy to the 1990s (1994),
Victory 1945: Canadians from War to Peace (1995), The Good
Fight: Canadians and World War II (1995), Yankee Go Home?
Canadians and Anti-Americanism (1996, 1997), Petrified Campus:
Canada’s Universities in Crisis (1997, 1998), The Canadian 100:
The Hundred Most Influential Canadians of the Twentieth Century
(1997, 1998), The Veterans Charter and Post-World War II Canada
(1998, 1999), Who Killed Canadian History? (1998, 1999),
Trudeau’s Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Pierre Trudeau (1998,
1999), Prime Ministers: Rating the Prime Ministers (1999,
2000), Our Century: The Canadian Journey (2000, 2001),
Canada’s Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace (2002, 2004),
First Drafts: Eyewitness Accounts from Canada’s Past (2003, 2004),
Canada and the Two World Wars (2003), The Importance of
Being Less Earnest: Promoting Canada’s National Interests through
Tighter Ties with the U.S. (2003), Who Killed the Canadian
Military? (2004; paper ed., 2004), Hell’s Corner: An
Illustrated History of Canada’s Great War (2004), and Battle
Lines: First Person Military Accounts from Our Past (2004). He is
publishing The Last Good War: An Illustrated History of Canada’s
Second World War (2005).
Granatstein is
married and lives in Toronto.
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