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This book tells the story of how Mexican multimillionaire businessman Jorge Pasquel and the Mexican League hastened the integration of major league baseball. During the decade that preceded Jackie Robinsons breaking of the color barrier, almost 150 players from the Negro League played in Mexico, most of them recruited by Pasquel.

In 1947 Leonard and Reva Brooks left for Mexico where Leonard planned to study painting for a year. In Mexico they discovered a vibrant, sometimes even dangerous, society and a dynamic artistic community, unlike the mundane world they had left behind in Canada with its stale and unwelcoming artistic scene. Invigorated by their new environment Leonard and Reva ended up staying for over half a century, playing a key role in establishing San Miguel de Allende as a world-famous art colony. In this new biography, John Virtue chronicles the lives of these two important artists and offers an...

John Virtue uncovers the dynamics of a prominent Ottawa family and reveals the divergent paths of brothers E.P. and Fred Taylor. E.P. became mid-century Canada's leading industrialist, while Fred became an artist and a Communist. Fred spent his youth trying to impress his father, while living in the shadow of his successful older brother. He eventually separated himself from family members - although never from their financial support - and turned to art and clandestine politics. Fred's communism embarrassed E.P. and caused a rift between the brothers that lasted for two decades. A man who...

"Why can't you be more like us?" That's the first of a thousand questions that the author asks on behalf of the American reader. His answer is in the Introduction, where he explains that the Spanish conquered a vibrant indigenous people in what was to become Mexico while Anglo-Saxons settled the United States with people like themselves. The author introduces each of 28 chapters, ranging from pre-Columbian Mexico to wars and revolutions, drug trafficking and illegal immigration, with a brief background history. Then come the Q & A. Over 380 pages there are short biographies and drawings of...

This is the first detailed account of the 5,000 black troops who were reluctantly sent north by the United States Army during World War II to help build the Alaska Highway and install the companion Canol pipeline. Theirs were the first black regiments deployed outside the lower 48 states during the war. The enlisted men, most of them from the South, faced racial discrimination from white officers, were barred from entering any towns for fear they would procreate a mongrel race with local women, and endured winter conditions they had never experienced before. Despite this, they won praise for...