Mark abley biography
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Conversations with a Dead Man
Indigenous Rights and the Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott
Mark Abley
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The second edition of Mark Abley’s acclaimed creative biography, revised and expanded with a new introduction by the author.
When he died in 1947, Duncan Campbell Scott was revered as one of his country’s finest poets and honoured as a devoted civil servant.
Today, because of his work as head of the Department of Indian Affairs, he's widely considered one of history's worst Canadians. When word of this reaches Scott's ghost, he returns to the land of the living to ask poet and journalist Mark Abley to clear his name, and in the ensuing research, Abley learns of a man who could somehow write vibrant poems about Indigenous people in one moment, and in another institute policies designed to destroy Indigenous culture and force assimilation.
With intelligence, moral ferocity, and a hunger for truth, Abley delves into Scott’s professional and personal lives w
