Allan Gould: Author, Journalist, Lecturer, Speechwriter
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Anne of Green Gables vs. G.I. Joe: Friendly Fire Between Canada and the U.S.
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Anne of Green Gables vs. G.I. Joe: Friendly Fire Between Canada and the U.S. (2003)

Are Canadians merely Americans with icicles hanging from them? No, there are numerous fascinating and often hilarious differences, as this book will prove.

  The Great Big Book of Canadian Humour
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The Great Big Book of Canadian Humour (1992) Bestseller

Editor. A definitive-as-possible anthology of the very best of Canuck comedy, from Leacock to SCTV, Wayne & Shuster to Howie Mandel, to a dozen
other comedians you've never heard of, but wish you had.
         

Canned Lit
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Canned Lit (1990)

Critically-acclaimed collection of parodies and satires of the lives and writings of Canada's most important (well, best- remembered at least) poets, novelists, and dramatists.
Northrop Frye laughed and Robertson Davies fumed: Gould always hits his mark.

   The Great Wiped Out Northpointer Read excerpt! The Great Wiped Out North (1988)

An Eh?-to-Zed collection of mocking, maliciously-satirical
essays about Major Canadian
Institutions (there's an
oxymoron for you), from Air Canada to Via Rail, with a hundred more in between.
         
Straight from the Lip
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Pen name "Jean Deau". An uproarious and critically-acclaimed collection of phony
autobiographies of Canada's leading politicians of the 80s,
from Trudeau to Copps, from
Turner to Mulroney, and from
King to Joe Clark -- who?		   Letters I've Been Meaning to Writepointer Read excerpt! Letters I've Been Meaning to Write (1986)

A funny collection of made up
letters which most of us long to write (to bosses, irritating neighbours, oblivious waiters, rotten children, etc.) but never do.
         

Unsportsmanlike Conduct
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 Unsportsmanlike Conduct (1985)

Contributor. An anthology of essays mocking a dozen major sports. Gould wrote three of them, one of which enraged the Gretzky family, especially Daddy Walter. Tough. If you can't stand the heat, stay off the ice.		   A Toronto Lampoonpointer Read excerpt! A Toronto Lampoon (1984)

Contributor. An anthology of essays poking fun at Canada's largest, richest, and most
obnoxiously egotistical and insecure city. Gould's entry was praised by many critics as the most successful satiric one in the collection. Great idea; it sold many dozens of copies.
         

The Top Secret Tory Handbook
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 The Top Secret Tory Handbook (1984) Bestseller

Pen name "Deep Chin". Co-authored with gifted Halifax illustrator Graham Pilsworth, this book of political satire was a best-seller during the year that Mulroney crushed Turner and replaced Trudeau.		   The Unorthodox Book of Jewish Records and Lists
pointer Read excerpt!		 The Unorthodox Book of Jewish Records & Lists (1982, 1989 U.S., 1994 U.K., 1997 U.S. again) Bestseller

Co-author Danny Siegel. First book by Gould, and one of his most popular. A rare example of laugh-out-loud, yet respectful, ethnic humour. Find another book that can walk that line.

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