7/8/2023 0 Comments Scalawags by Jim ChristyIn 2008, it was a CBC Radio Toronto pick for one of the best nonfiction books of year. And quite frankly in many instances-George Francis Train, for instance, or Louis De Rougemont-you'd probably be right. You might call them something else nuts, perhaps. There is an ineffable quality, an indefinable something or other that sets some people apart, places them in the special category that Jim Christy calls scalawag. Many adventurers are not even interesting, come to think of it, let alone scalawags. But you can be an adventurer, a conman or conwoman, a fool, liar, gambler, rodomontade or ragamuffin and not be a scalawag. In these pages you will encounter gamblers and adventurers, conmen and conwomen, rodomontades and ragamuffins, outright fools and outrageous liars. CBC Radio Toronto selection, one of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year (2008).
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