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| Other uniform titles: | Creighton, Donald Grant. Old chieftain.
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| ISBN: | 9781442676428
1442676426
0802071643
9780802071644
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| Notes: | First work originally published: Toronto, Ont. : Macmillan, 1952. 2nd work originally published: Toronto, Ont. : Macmillan, 1955.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Print version record.
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| 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Creighton, Donald Grant. Young politician. John A. Macdonald. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1998 9780802071644
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