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offersits members two books together as the month's Club Selection.We havetaken this step because we believe both of these books to be timely and im-portant.Careful review8 of both books will be found below and,on page 5,detailed description8 of the books will be found,together with the 8pecialprice at which they are offered together to Readers'Club members.  \n# The True Face of Duplessisby Pierre Laportereviewed by Arnold Edinborough\n\nMaurice Duplessis was the greatest tyrant that Canadian politicshas ever seen.For twenty-five years he governed Quebec according tohis own particular whim.The fellow-ministers of his cabinet were mereciphers(he once called one of them“a nothing”in the Legislature);hisback-bench supporters said exactly what he told them to say in theChamber(one actually gave up speaking when the battery of his hearing-aid failed and he could no longer hear the whispered instructions of hischief);the voters were told that they could get no public works in anyriding which did not elect a Union Nationale candidate(they didn't);and even the members of the Press Gallery in Quebec City were publiclyreprimanded if they did not report the exact news which Mr.Duplessiswanted reported and that only.  \nPierre Laporte,one of the journalists who would not knuckle under—and as a result was banned from Duplessis'press conferences—nowgives an unvarnished and highly unflattering account of Duplessis.Hetells of his pride and of his egotism;of his fantastic distrust of even hisclose friends;his capacity for looking over every administrative detailand taking every political decision himself;his paranoiac tendencies inface of any criticism and of his extraordinary rudeness to people inofficial or inferior position.  \nBut Laporte also tells of Duplessis'devotion to Quebec(he wasunmarried and lived a life of single-minded absorption in politics).Heshows how good he was at getting to the core of a problem,even thoughwhen he did it was merely so that he could then confuse his opponentsby a flood of false logic concealed in a tirade of personal abuse.  \nHe tells of his phenomenal memory,his recognition of the chiefpeople living in every riding,and his enormous knowledge of politics,of history and of law.  \nBut primarily Laporte is out to blow the gaff on Duplessis.Someof the instances of his deviousness and his dictatorial manner whichLaporte mentions are almost unbelievable.It is to the author's credit thathe makes such extraordinary things credible by setting them in a generalcharacter sketch which gets very close to the real man.And he succeedsin blowing the gaff sky-high.That's what makes the book such fascinatingreading,especially since it is obviously written from long personal andpolitical acquaintance with Duplessis.  \n# Peacemaker orPowder-Monkey\n\nby James M.Minifie  \nreviewed by Peter G.Martin  \nJames M.Minifie presents a challenge to every thoughtful Canadian.In a hard-hitting,somewhat polemical book,this exceedingly well-inform-ed Canadian observer of the Washington scene argues that Canada isdenying both her own self-interest and the larger moral interests of theworld through her unthinking me-tooism towards the United States.  \nMr.Minifie is C.B.C.Correspondent in Washington.He is far fromblindly anti-American.He is,in fact,pro-American in that he is arespecter of the American tradition,the American way of life and ofmen like Adlai Stevenson.  \nBut his respect for the United States does not blind him to what heconsiders to be grave and serious dangers to the world,to Canada,andto the Americans themselves brought about by the United States'mis-handling of what the author calls“paramountcy”.  \nThis United States,his argument runs,was once a free nation com-mitted to enlightened self-interest and to just neutrality in its internationalaffairs.However,through the accident of history,this nation was thrust  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