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Aug 27, 2016wyenotgo rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Given Wab Kinew's skill as a radio and TV communicator and his unquestioned intelligence I found this book disappointing. The writing style is disjointed, his choice of language sophomoric and at times crude. So, literature it is not; but that would be forgivable were it not for his failure to really come to terms with his own failings; he admits to having repeatedly made mistakes but blithely glosses them over as somehow not relevant to the "big picture" the disgraceful mistreatment of First Nations indigenous people throughout the Americas and more specifically in Canada. That is an important story but it tends to get lost in Kinew's meandering tale of his own career. He is at his best when telling the story of his father -- a better man than he.