John A. MacDonald : The Young Politician, The Old Chieftain / Donald Creighton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Creighton, Donald Grant, 1902-1979, author.

Contributor:

Waite, Peter.

Wright, Donald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Macdonald, John A. (John Alexander), 1815-1891.

Macdonald, John A.

Prime ministers--Canada--Biography.

Prime ministers.

Canada--Politics and government--1867-1896.

Canada.

Genre:

Biographies.

collective biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1,267 pages )

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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 America in Confederation. The second volume traces Macdonald's often tumultuous subsequent career in the context of a growing and often recalcitrant nation. He was Prime Minister from 1867 to 1873 and then again from 1878 until his death in June, 1891. The evocative epilogues with which Creighton concludes each volume are widely recognized as having a place among the great passages of literary prose." "P. B. Waite's introduction to this new one-volume republication provides an illuminating account of the impact that Creighton and his biography of Macdonald had on a whole generation of historians and readers."--Jacket

Contents:

1. The Immigrant Macdonalds, 1815-1830

2. The Lawyer's Apprentice, 1830-1837

3. First Public Appearances, 1837-1839

4. The New Conservative Candidate, 1839-1844

5. Minister of the Crown, 1844-1847

6. The Twilight of the Tory Party, 1847-1849

7. Years of Recovery, 1849-1851

8. The Liberal-Conservative Coalition, 1851-1854

9. The Victory of the Progressive-Conservatives, 1854-1856

10. Double Shuffle, 1856-1858

11. The Humiliation of George Brown, 1858-1861

12. Impasse, 1861-1865

13. British North America in Conference, June-December, 1864

14. Checkmate, January 1865-April 1866

15. Triumph, April 1866-March 1857

Epilogue, The First of July, 1867.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Jun 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-1877-3

1-4875-1876-5

OCLC:

1105851423