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Note that some of the earliest Massey Lectures have long gone out of print, and are nearly impossible to track down as individual volumes. Fortunately, several of these early lectures were reprinted in The Lost Massey Lectures (1965, 1966, 1967, 1979, and 1983) and More Lost Massey Lectures (1961, 1963, 1969, 1977, and 1981).
Unfortunately, the 1975 Massey Lectures by J. Tuzo Wilson, Limits to Science, is unavailable in print. See the Massey Lectures audio page of this guide for links to audio recordings of the lectures.
Also note that there were four years where, for various reasons, no Massey Lectures were given. These years are: 1976, 1980, 1986, and 1996.
The 1961 Massey Lectures were The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations by Barbara Ward.
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More Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics From Five Great Thinkers by The 1962 Massey Lectures were The Educated Imagination, by Northrop Frye.
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The 1963 Massey Lectures were The Image of Confederation, by Frank Underhill.
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More Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics From Five Great Thinkers by The 1964 Massey Lectures were The Real World of Democracy, by C. B. Macpherson.
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The Real World of Democracy by The 1965 Massey Lectures were The Underdeveloped Country, by C. B. Macpherson.
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The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics From Five Great Thinkers by The 1966 Massey Lectures were The Moral Ambiguity of America, by Paul Goodman.
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The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics From Five Great Thinkers by The 1967 Massey Lectures were Conscience for Change, by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics From Five Great Thinkers by The 1968 Massey Lectures were The Politics of the Family, by R. D. Laing.
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The Politics of the Family by The 1969 Massey Lectures were Time as History, by George Grant.
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More Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics From Five Great Thinkers by The 1970 Massey Lectures were Therefore Choose Life, by George Wald.
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Therefore Choose Life by The 1971 Massey Lectures were The Power of Law, by James Alexander Corry.
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The 1972 Massey Lectures were Inscape and Landscape, by Pierre Dansereau.
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The 1973 Massey Lectures were Designing Freedom, by Stafford Beer.
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The 1974 Massey Lectures were Nostalgia for the Absolute, by George Steiner.
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The 1975 Massey Lectures were Limits to Science, by J. Tuzo Wilson.
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Unfortunately, the 1975 Massey Lectures by J. Tuzo Wilson, Limits to Science, is unavailable in print.
No Massey Lectures were given this year.
The 1977 Massey Lectures were Myth and Meaning, by Claude Lévi Strauss.
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The 1978 Massey Lectures were The Inadvertent Epic: From Uncle Tom to Roots, by Leslie Fiedler.
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The Inadvertent Epic: From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Roots by The 1979 Massey Lectures were Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Association, by Jane Jacobs.
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The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics From Five Great Thinkers by No Massey Lectures were given this year.
The 1981 Massey Lectures were Dangers & Options: The Matter of World Survival, by Willy Brandt.
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More Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics From Five Great Thinkers by The 1982 Massey Lectures were Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism, by Robert Jay Lifton and Richard Falk.
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Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism, Updated edition by The 1983 Massey Lectures were Globalism and the Nation State, by Eric Kierans.
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The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics From Five Great Thinkers by The 1984 Massey Lectures were Latin America: At War With The Past, by Carlos Fuentes.
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Latin America: At War With the Past by The 1985 Massey Lectures were Prisons We Choose to Live Inside, by Doris Lessing.
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Prisons We Choose To Live Inside by No Massey Lectures were given this year.
The 1987 Massey Lectures were Compassion and Solidarity, by Gregory Baum.
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Compassion and Solidarity: The Church for Others by The 1988 Massey Lectures were Necessary Illusions, by Noam Chomsky.
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Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by The 1989 Massey Lectures were The Real World of Technology, by Ursula M. Franklin.
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The Real World of Technology, Revised edition by The 1990 Massey Lectures were Biology as Ideology, by Richard Lewontin.
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Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA by The 1991 Massey Lectures were The Malaise of Modernity, by Charles Taylor.
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The 1992 Massey Lectures were Twenty-First Century Capitalism, by Robert Heilbroner.
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Twenty-First Century Capitalism by The 1993 Massey Lectures were Democracy on Trial, by Jean Bethke Elshtain.
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The 1994 Massey Lectures were On the Eve of the Millennium, by Conor Cruise O'Brien.
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On the Eve of the Millennium by The 1995 Massey Lectures were The Unconscious Civilization, by John Ralston Saul.
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The Unconscious Civilization by No Massey Lectures were given this year.
The 1997 Massey Lectures were The Elsewhere Community, by Hugh Kenner.
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The 1998 Massey Lectures were Becoming Human, by Jean Vanier.
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The 1999 Massey Lectures were The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in an Age of Mass Culture, by Robert Fulford.
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The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture by The 2000 Massey Lectures were The Rights Revolution, by Michael Ignatieff.
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The 2001 Massey Lectures were The Cult of Efficiency, by Janice Gross Stein.
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The Cult of Efficiency, Revised edition by The 2002 Massey Lectures were Beyond Fate, by Margaret Visser.
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The 2003 Massey Lectures were The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative, by Thomas King.
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The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative by The 2004 Massey Lectures were A Short History of Progress, by Ronald Wright.
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The 2005 Massey Lectures were Race Against Time, by Stephen Lewis.
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The 2006 Massey Lectures were The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit, by Margaret Somerville.
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The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit by The 2007 Massey Lectures were The City of Words, by Alberto Manguel.
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The 2008 Massey Lectures were Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, by Margaret Atwood.
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Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by The 2009 Massey Lectures were The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, by Wade Davis.
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The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World by The 2010 Massey Lectures were Player One: What is to Become of Us, by Douglas Coupland.
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Player One: What is to Become of Us: A Novel in Five Hours by The 2011 Massey Lectures were Winter: Five Windows on the Season, by Adam Gopnik.
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Winter: Five Windows on the Season by The 2012 Massey Lectures were The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos, by Neil Turok.
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The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos by The 2013 Massey Lectures were Blood: The Stuff of Life, by Lawrence Hill.
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The 2014 Massey Lectures were Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship, by Adrienne Clarkson.
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Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship by The 2015 Massey Lectures were History's People: Personalities and the Past, by Margaret MacMillan.
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History's People: Personalities and the Past by The 2016 Massey Lectures were The Return of History, by Jennifer Welsh.
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The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century by The 2017 Massey Lectures were In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey, by Payam Akhavan.
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In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey by The 2018 Massey Lectures were All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, by Tanya Talaga.
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All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward by The 2019 Massey Lectures were Power Shift: The Longest Revolution, by Sally Armstrong.
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Power Shift: The Longest Revolution by The 2020 Massey Lectures were Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society, by Ron Deibert.
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Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society by The 2021 Massey Lectures were Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling, by Esi Edugyan.
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Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling by The 2022 Massey Lectures were Laughing With Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordians by Tomson Highway.
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Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Deah, and Accordians by The 2023 Massey Lectures were The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together As Things Fall Apart by Astra Taylor,
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The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together As Things Fall Apart by 
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