JOHN A, THE MAN WHO MADE US: The Life and Times of John A. Macdonald Volume One 1815-1867, by Richard Gwyn (2008 1st Ed.)

Author: Richard Gwyn. Published by Vintage Canada, Toronto, ON., 2008, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with lovely fold out covers and deckle-edged pages. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9 x 6 inch, 542  pages including index.  

JOHN A, THE MAN WHO MADE US: The Life and Times of John A. Macdonald Volume One 1815-1867, by Richard Gwyn, is the first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers.

The first volume of Richard Gwyn’s definitive biography of John A. Macdonald follows his life from his birth in Scotland in 1815 to his emigration with his family to Kingston, Ontario, to his days as a young, rising lawyer, to his tragedy-ridden first marriage, to the birth of his political ambitions, to his commitment to the all-but-impossible challenge of achieving Confederation, to his presiding, with his second wife Agnes, over the first Canada Day of the new Dominion in 1867.

Colourful, intensely human and with a full measure of human frailties, Macdonald was beyond question Canada’s most important prime minister. This volume describes how Macdonald developed Canada’s first true national political party, encompassing French and English and occupying the centre of the political spectrum. To perpetuate this party, Macdonald made systematic use of patronage to recruit talent and to bond supporters, a system of politics that continues to this day.

For more info on Sir John A. Macdonald, please see: Sir John A. Macdonald | The Canadian Encyclopedia

For more info on Richard Gwyn, please see: Richard Gwyn | The Canadian Encyclopedia

ISBN: 9780679314769  

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