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This article explores the controversial life, writings, and death of Lieutenant General Trần Độ, a decorated war hero who became Vietnam's leading political dissident during the final decade of his life. The general made use of his biography to author "open letters" that circulated via elite social networks and later the internet. In them, he called on the Vietnamese Communist Party to democratize itself in order to foster just and equitable development for all. The details illustrate the critical importance of an individual's biography in shaping not only dissent, but official efforts to censor it as well.

Canada's Governors General: Biography and Constitutional
Evolution 1847–1878, Barbara J. Messamore, Toronto: University
of Toronto Press, 2006, pp. viii, 308.There is no comprehensive history of the office of governor general, a
scholarly lapse that this book goes only part way in repairing.
Canada's Governors General covers the period 1847 to 1878,
that is, from Lord Elgin's signing of the controversial Rebellion
Losses Bill, because his advisers who controlled the colonial legislative
assembly advised him to do so, to the receipt of new Letters Patent and
Instructions thirty years later from London. The intent of these last was
to provide greater certainty about the function and role of the governor
general following Lord Dufferin's excitable interventions in the wake
of the Pacific Scandal to maintain British Columbia's adhesion to
Confederation.