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Authors: Rex Murphy

Mark Harrison of CBC’s
The National
, a man of rare even-temper and fine judgment.

Alexandra Tomescu of
The National
, a woman of judicious mind and dauntless industry, who produced many of the Points of View included in this volume and gave very necessary assistance in the early trawl of columns and POVs.

The great mix of other people who, over the years at
The National
, have been involved in the various stages of producing
Point of View
.

Natasha Hassan of the
Globe and Mail
Comments section, another person of great cheer and intelligence, whose oversight of the weekly column is a model of discernment and benign scrutiny.

Bruce Westwood, my genial and efficacious agent.

Erin Cooper, the very able caricaturist, for the book’s cover and title page horror (it is, I acknowledge, kinder than a photograph), which has brought much amusement to coworkers and friends.

And my brother Tyrone, whose reserves of scorn and dudgeon so far superior, in volume and variety, to my own—a whole Alpine range of unslaked
indignatio
—leave me feeble with wonder and breathless from vain emulation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rex Murphy was born in Carbonear, Newfoundland, moved at an early age to Freshwater, Placentia Bay, and grew up in the province during the tenure of its greatest political impressario, Joseph R. Smallwood. During his university days, an early collision with the formidable Joey happily confirmed an innate disposition to look upon politics and politicians as an unacknowledged branch of entertainment, a perspective that has served well to the present day.

He drifted into the world of near-journalism (commentary and opinion) first at VOCM, St. John’s, and then for various stretches at CBC, initially at
Here and Now
in St. John’s. He is the weekly commentator on CBC TV’s
The National
, host of CBC Radio’s
Cross Country Checkup
and writes a Saturday column at the
Globe and Mail
.

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