Granatstein served as director of theCanadian War Museum inOttawa from 1998 to 2001 supported the building of the museum's new home that opened in 2005.[5]
Granatstein married Elaine Hitchcock in 1961 until her death in 2012. They had two children, Carole and Michael.[6] He later married Linda Grayson until her death in 2019.[7]
Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders (1999) with Norman Hillmer.
Yankee Go Home?: Canadians and Anti-Americanism (1996) Granatstein maintains that what began as a justifiable fear of invasion eventually became a tool of the economic and political elites bent on preserving their power. At first, anti-Americanism was largely the Tory way of keeping pro-British attitudes uppermost in the minds of Canadians. Later, with the right wing embracing the free-trade deal, it became the most important weapon of the nationalist left.
Canada's War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939–1945 political manoeuvres of the King government during World War IIonline
The Ottawa Men: The Civil Service Mandarins, 1935–1957 (1982)Oxford University Press examines the development of the federal civil service and its contribution to Canada's coming of age as a nation.online
reissued (2015)The Ottawa Men by Rock's Mills Press, with a new introduction surveying research since 1982, and more photographs.
Mackenzie King (1975), for secondary studentsonline
Spy Wars: Espionage and Canada From Gouzenko to Glasnost (1990) with David Stafford
^Granatstein, J. L. (1967).Politics of Survival: The Conservative Party of Canada, 1939–1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. ix.ISBN978-1-4875-8603-4.JSTOR10.3138/j.ctv5j02k4.
