Ian McKay is the L. R. Wilson Chair in Canadian History at McMaster University and the author of the award-winning Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920 and the co-author of Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in the Age of Anxiety.
Kingston writer Jamie Swift is the author of a dozen books, most recently The Vimy Trap, or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War (with Ian McKay), finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the Canadian Historical Association Prize for the Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History.
He has held the Michener Foundation fellowship for public service journalism and was a longtime documentary producer for CBC-Radio's "Ideas." In addition to the writing life, he is a social justice advocate. He taught "Critical Perspectives on Business" at the Smith School of Business, Queen's University for many years.