Canadian Military History Volume 3 Issue 2 Article 21 1994 True Patriot: The Life of Brooke Claxton, 1898–1960 by David Jay Bercuson [Review] David A. Lenarcic Wilfrid Laurier University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.wlu.ca/cmh Part of the Military History Commons Recommended Citation Lenarcic, David A. "True Patriot: The Life of Brooke Claxton, 1898–1960 by David Jay Bercuson [Review]." Canadian Military History 3, 2 (1994) This Feature is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars Commons @ Laurier. It has been accepted for inclusion in Canadian Military History by an authorized editor of Scholars Commons @ Laurier. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Lenarcic: <em>True Patriot</em> [Review] True Patriot drive of his will, ... his incredible for mastery over the other The Life of Brooke Claxton energy, and his organizational helped determine the course 1898-1960 skill." (p.5) ofBrooke Claxton's career and But it is also the story of a his personal life. (p .43) David Jay Bercuson. True Patriot: man: his voyage from adoles The Life of Brooke Claxton 1898- cence to adulthood, his inner The author never loses sight 1960 (Toronto: University of battles with depression, and his of the interrelationship between Toronto Press, 1994) 363 pages, relationships with father, wife and personality and policy. $35.00. children. Bercuson's ability to It is in the examination of construct a portrait of Claxton Claxton's public service where his olitical biography has become based on both his public and "overriding ... desire to be useful P something of a lost art within private lives is perhaps the book's to his country" (p.287) shines the Canaclian historical profession.