Mr Bush, Angus, and Me: Notes Of An American-canadian In The Age Of Unreason

Six months after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Steven Laffoley stood at the edge of Ground Zero in New York City. Having emigrated from America 20 years earlier, he had travelled to New York in an effort to find meaning in the terrible event. However. Rather than finding meaning, , he found the absebce of meaning. In the months to follow he watched as the American government created its own meaning for the event and used it to usher in a new age-The Age of Unreason. As he bagan to write and publish his thoughts oin the political and cultural events of this Dark Age, he also began an unexpected journey; a journey to undertand his own relationship to America and Canada. To find answers, Steven travelled to New York, Boston and throughout New England; to Paris, London, Verdun, and along the roads of Northern Europe; to Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, and deep into the boreal forest at the heart of Canada.

Born near Boston, Steven Edwin Laffoley moved to Nova Scotia in 1982 where he worked as a curriculum writer, a university professor and a school principal. He has written dozens of articles and essays for magazines and newspapers and appears regularly on CBC radio. He lives with his wife and daughter in Halifax, Nova Scotia.