The Idea of Canada: Letters to a Nation, Johnston, David. Published by Signal, 2016. 8vo up to 9½” tall. 302 pages. Black over gray boards, red spine titles, rough cut fore-edge. Unclipped glassine dust-jacket has the lightest of ruffling top spine edge; volume pristine and unread.
David Lloyd Johnston is a Canadian academic, author, and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada from 2010 to 2017, the 28th since Canadian Confederation. Letters to a Nation is a series of 50 (of several thousand) carefully chosen letters he has written to people he has admired and befriended over his seventy-plus years, that sets out Mr. Johnston’s frank, informed, and novel thoughts about Canada. 002614 $15
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