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...Almighty God said, I think I'll raise him up to persuade Newfoundlanders to join Canada. If he persuades them, Newfoundland is going to need a Premier.' " And that, as Joey Smallwood liked to confide at political gatherings, was more or less how he came to be called, in one of his favorite phrases, "the Only Living Father of Confederation." Others prefer to describe him as the "Kwame Nkrumah of Newfoundland." Until he retired last week from the province's Liberal Party leadership after 23 years of almost absolute power, Smallwood was one of the Western Hemisphere...
...most of the 500,000 Newfies-"a community of Irish mystics cut adrift in the Atlantic," in the colorful phrase of Novelist Paul West-and his picture adorned the poorest living rooms in tiny fishing ports with names like Blow-me-down and Come-by-Chance. Newfoundland admired Joey simply for being his outrageous self: he would sneer at the Tories for being the "waffle-iron salesmen" of the merchant classes, and once, at a political rally, he took off his shoes and wiggled h;s toes to prove that "I don't have hooves and horns...
Salesman. The son of a lumber surveyor who died of alcoholism, Joey was a school dropout at 15. His first full-time job was as a reporter for a newspaper in St. John's. Smitten with socialism, he emigrated to New York City, where he wrote inflammatory stories for the socialist daily Call. Returning to Newfoundland in 1925, Joey became a labor leader and at one point "walked myself down to skin and grief" over 600 miles of railroad track to organize the section...
Smallwood promised to bring his people the "benefits that the rest of North America takes for granted" -meaning free public education, electricity and roads in the outports. The benefits also included jobs, and Joey was an able, almost irresistible salesman for his province on his frequent trips abroad. He personally badgered Winston Churchill into approving British support for the $1 billion hydroelectric development now being built at Churchill Falls. In 1965 Smallwood visited Helsinki on an industry-scouting trip with Richard Nixon, then a corporate lawyer; Joey accompanied Nixon on a side trip to Moscow and proposed, at Moscow University...
Jewish Batman. If anything, the book is too rich in such details, almost bursting its seams with worked-up mots and comic turns. But it is strung together in the end by the quasi-poetic image of Jake's mysterious cousin Joey, the horseman of the title. Joey is a movie stuntman, baseball player and soldier of fortune whose vaguely charted wanderings seem to take in all the barricades, from Madrid in 1938 to Jerusalem in 1967. Jake, convinced that Joey is now in Paraguay pursuing the infamous Dr. Mengele of Auschwitz, also sees him as a kind...