NEW BOOK: Prairie Lion: The Life and Times of Ted Byfield
After five years of research and writing and scores of personal interviews, my biography of the great conservative icon Ted Byfield has just been published. Prairie Lion: The Life and Times of Ted Byfield features a foreword by Preston Manning and details Byfield’s battle for Canada between the two Trudeaus defined the political landscape for decades.
For more than a half-century, Ted was one of Canada's most significant public Christians and wittiest political commentators, and his life's work included a series of influential newsmagazines, laying the groundwork for a political movement, writing books, and serving as editor on a magnificent 12-volume history of Christianity, The Christians: Their First Two Thousand Years. He gave voice to Western alienation when few others would, and helped create the consensus that resulted in the first Conservative majority government in decades.
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All proceeds from the book will go directly to the work of the pro-life movement.
Here's what readers are saying so far:
Ted Byfield is well deserving of this excellent biography by Jonathon Van Maren…What a story! What a man! What a life!
--Preston Manning, founder of the Reform Party and former leader of the Official Opposition
The words of this book…reflect what I tell all my grandchildren. “Ted Byfield is more than a legend. His life and writings will forever warrant essential analysis for anyone wanting to grasp the past and future shaping of Albert and Canada.”
--Stockwell Day, former leader of the Official Opposition
An eminently readable biography of an unforgettable man. Ted Byfield ranks with Peter Lougheed and Preston Manning as one of the great shapers of modern Alberta politics.
--Tom Flanagan, Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary and former Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Prairie Lion is a riveting biography of a passionate and consequential man. And it is an essential history of western Canada trying to find its place in the world.
--Ezra Levant, founder of Rebel News
For a man who wrote so much history and did so much to shape it, the history of Ted Byfield has desperately needed telling. Every Albertan, Westerner and Canadian conservative will know themselves better for knowing Ted as told by Van Maren.
Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard and Alberta Report
Several reviews have already been published, and there are more to come. I will include them in the regular Substack newsletters when they are out! A big thank you to those who have already purchased their copies. The heroes who fought the sexual revolution so long and so well deserve to be remembered.