{"product_id":"9781926836348","title":"Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist","description":"Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a great yarn. In Champagne and Meatballs — a memoir written not long before his death in Moscow in 1984 — we meet a cigar-smoking rogue who was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a political meeting. His stories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combat and camaraderie at the front lines in World War II, and of surviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compelling reading. The manuscript of Champagne and Meatballs was brought to light and edited by historian Larry Hannant, who has written a fascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the text. Brash, irreverent, informative, and entertaining, Whyte's tale is history and biography accompanied by a wink of his eye.","brand":"Athabasca University Press and Canadian Committee on Labour History","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166892310768,"sku":"9781926836348","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781926836348_p0.jpg?v=1763635900","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781926836348","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}