John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician. The Old Chieftain (RICH: Reprints in Canadian History)

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The Dictionary of Canadian Biography calls this work ‘the most effective Canadian biography yet published in English.’ Donald Creighton’s two-volume account of Canada’s first Prime Minister used to be originally published in the 1950s as ‘John A. Macdonald: The Young Lion’ (1952) and ‘John A. Macdonald: The Old Chieftain’ (1955). Every of the volumes won a Governor General’s Literary Award. Creighton’s rare combination of rigorous scholarship, magnificent literary style, and romantic and heroic vision gives this work abnormal power and wide appeal.

Sir John A. Macdonald’s flamboyant personality dominated Canadian public life from the years preceding Confederation to the end of the nineteenth century, and the political structures and national policies which developed under his leadership continue to shape public issues today. Creighton’s first volume takes Macdonald from his childhood and early years as a young lawyer in Kingston, Ontario, through his swift rise in political life to positions of influence, to the great achievement of uniting the colonies of British North The usa in Confederation. The second one volume traces Macdonald’s steadily tumultuous subsequent career in the context of a growing and steadily recalcitrant nation. He used to be Prime Minister from 1867 to 1873 and alternatively from 1878 until his death in June, 1891. The spectacular and evocative epilogues with which Creighton concludes Every volume are widely recognized as having a place a few of the great passages of literary prose.

P. B. Waite’s introduction to this new one-volume republication provides an illuminating account of the have an effect on that Creighton and his biography of Macdonald had on a whole generation of historians and readers.

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