Allan Levine Book Launch (The Dollar a Year Men)

Name: Allan Levine Book Launch (The Dollar a Year Men)
Start: 2025-11-19T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-11-19T20:00:00-06:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

Schedule

Wed Nov 19 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB

Join Allan Levine for the launch of The Dollar a Year Men: How the Best Business Brains in Canada Helped to Win the Second World War (Barlow Books).
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781998841295/allan-levine/dollar-a-year-men
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/12QyM7r3nA0
When Canada went to war in 1939, the goal was to provide the British with the ships, planes and weapons that it desperately needed to defend their island against Nazi Germany. But at the time, Canada had little to offer in terms of military hardware. That was when Canada recruited top business leaders to take charge. In six years, they turned Canada into a military power, the fourth largest in the world. They helped to win the war, and in the process they turned Canada’s economy into a modern industrial one. What’s more, they served the country for a dollar a year, or even nothing.
Allan Levine is an award-winning author and historian who has written sixteen books including Details are Unprintable: Wayne Lonergan and the Sensational Café Society Murder; Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience, which was longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize; Toronto: Biography of a City; King: William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided By the Hand of Destiny, which won the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction; and Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba that won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year. For the past fifteen years, he has written the column “Now & Then” for the Winnipeg Free Press, which looks at the history behind major news issues. His articles and reviews have also appeared in the Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, Maclean’s and Tablet, among other publications.