Why are we so hard on ourselves when everyone else thinks we're wonderful?ย ย Walt Whitman, Marlene Dietrich and Bill Clinton all have had admiring things to say about Canada.ย ย At the same time, some of our patriots--including Northrop Frye, Margaret Atwood and Pierre Trudeau--are harsh critics.
David Olive has collected a witty and whimsical book of 600 quotations that show how critical Canadians are--and always have been--of themselves, and how foreigners are usually unstinting in their praise of Canada.
Canada Inside Out is a browser's delight and a feast of canny Canadiana.ย ย Perhaps we'll never figure ourselves out, but David Olive lets us revel in the sheer joy of our contradictions.