An autobiographical work covering the author’s tenure as President of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – Société Radio Canada, and the factors that led to his resignation. The original 1996 version, published by Stoddart Publishing Company in Toronto is widely available in public, university and college libraries around the world.
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For fans and friends of CBC, Tony Manera’s just-published A Dream Betrayed: the Battle for the CBC is a must read
Antonia Zerbisias – Toronto Star – October 1996
A thoughtful and gentlemanly recounting of events which also stands as a calmly stated plea for the CBC’s survival as a crucial national institution
Christopher Harris – The Globe and Mail – October 1996
Written more in sorrow than in anger, A Dream Betrayed provides the inside dope on the events leading to Manera’s principled resignation last year…..Manera is the relentlessly honest piper of a dirge bemoaning cultural nationalism defeated by political expediency
Quill and Quire – November 1996
What is most valuable in Manera’s book is his detailed and well-informed picture of the complexities created by the CBC mandate……His account of the days before his resignation, though it is straightforward and without melodrama, is very moving
David Helwig – The Montreal Gazette – January 1997
Manera writes well…..his memoir will only be fully understood by those with a good command of Canadian politics, but A Dream Betrayed makes sober reading for anyone concerned for the future of public broadcasting
Jack Craine – COMBROADS (Commonwealth Broadcasting Association) March 1997