I think I really am an ideologue. I think I have been driven in a fashion often obsessive and sometimes unbalanced by the need to better the world, to eradicate injustice, to challenge the liberal premise.
Stephen Lewis, May 1987
Summerhill Press, Toronto. 1989. ISBN: 9780929091044
From the dust jacket, 1989: Unfinished Journey spans two Russian revolutions and two World Wars, moving from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the immigrant Jewish neighbourhoods of Montreal, from Oxford between the wars to northern Canadian mining communities in the 1940s, right up to the current national political scene. Cameron Smith has placed the lives of the Lewis
family in the vivid context of world history, from the rising revolution in Russia in the late 19th century, to the African famines of the 1980’s. Whether fighting Bolsheviks in Svisloch, communities in the North American trade union movement, or the ultra-left Waffle group in the NDP in the 1970’s, he traces the continuing commitment to democratic socialism of all three Lewis generations.