In Canadian Spy Story, David A. Wilson thoroughly and insightfully examines Canada’s struggle against the Fenians, nineteenth-century radicals also known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood. They recruited fellow Catholics who had fled to the United States and Canada to escape British misrule over Ireland. Cultivating a powerful sense of grievance, they called attention to the nearly one million killed by the Great Famine of the late…
Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor is the author of American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783–1850. His work has won two Pulitzer Prizes, as well as a Bancroft Prize.