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The Dictionary of Canadian Biography calls this work 'probably the greatest Canadian biography yet published in English.' Donald Creighton's two-volume account of Canada's first Prime Minister was originally published in the 1950s as 'John A. Macdonald: The Young Lion' (1952) and 'John A. Macdonald: The Old Chieftain' (1955). Each 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 extraordinary 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 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 spectacular and 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. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arthur Meighen, PC, QC (June 16, 1874 ? August 5, 1960) was the ninth Prime Minister of Canada from July 10, 1920 to December 29, 1921 and June 29 to September 25, 1926. He was the first Prime Minister born after Confederation, and the only one to represent a riding in Manitoba. Both of his terms of office were brief, the second unprecedentedly so, partially due to the King-Byng Affair. ... Read more

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Title: Harper's dark opportunity: a radical in sheep's clothing, prospective PM may be 'Grim Reaper' of Canadian politics.(CANADA)
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Title: Identities and ideas: participation of young legislators in the Canadian House of Commons.
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Title: Electoral instability in Canada: implications for the Canada-U.S. relationship.(Report)
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Title: Fixing our fixed election date legislation.
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Title: Defense policy and the atmospherics of Canada-U.S. relations: the case of the Harper Conservatives.(Report)
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Title: Crossing the floor, conflict of interest and the Parliament of Canada Act.(Stephen Harper and David Emerson)
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A great story about the sad man of Canada

In the American Southwest, the term for politicians such as Pierre Elliott Trudeau is "all hat and no cows;" or as I once wrote in describing a political wannabe in New Mexico, "a few cows short of a full herd."

What's the Canadian version?A few pennies short of a loonie?All hoot and no loon?This brief but very readable analysis of the politics of Trudeau struggles vainly to come to terms with a man Canadians wanted to love but eventually--along with the rest of the world--saw as a joke.Trudeau, like John Diefenbaker, are the Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber of the last 50 years.Both men were initially loved by Canadians who eventually learned their Prince Charmings were really merely two slippery poliwogs grasping for power.

To love Canada is to love diversity;the politician's love of power is to love oneself.Trudeau was the Jimmy Carter of Canada, but without the vision or intellect.

Instead of biography, Ricci perceptively analyzes of Trudeau's political highlights, a man who was clever by too far and deeply in love with his own cleverness.Trudeau was blind to the desire of Canadians who want a nationalistic definition of why they are not Americans, Englishmen, French or others--but are united as separatists.It's not a nationalism of smug superiority, empire, wealth or a right to rule lesser folks.For a century after the War of 1812, we were "not Americans."For the past century, nationalism in Canada asks, "Okay, then who are we?"

Ricci details how Trudeau grew up with this sentiment, a natural youthful rebel against any and all outside domination.Then Trudeau went to Harvard, the elite finishing school for American politicians, and returned as an eventual Liberal Party apparatchik and loyal supporter of the Ogdensburg Agreement.Trudeau's insouciant nationalism sums up the frustration of Canada.

Diefenbaker never got beyond "My fellow Canadians."Pearson never got beyond his flag.Trudeau, as Ricci makes clear--whether he meant to or not--simply never "got it."Just as he was made into an international joke by Margaret, he was likewise seduced by his desperate passion for power.

Ricci is an astute and perceptive analyst of Trudeaumania, which makes this book a gem in understanding this toothless lapdog of Canadian identity.Maybe it's the role of a writer, not a politician, to clearly define a nation's unique and clearly distinct identity.If so, the opening chapters are an ideal place to start;the rest of the book explains what goes wrong when the task is entrusted to a politician--as it has been since 1957.

Perhaps Ricci can so define Canada;if not, the person who does will likely have started with this book.It's that good in its portrayal of a frustrating politician.




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The four articles which make up this volume were originally published in successive issues of the Monthly Book Review of the Manitoba Free Press and are herewith assembled in book form in response to what appears to be a somewhat general request that they be made available in a more permanent form. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Revue parlementaire canadienne, published by Canadian Parliamentary Association on June 22, 2010. The length of the article is 1714 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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From Canada's greatest political journalist comes the astonishing story of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. As the original edition described this award-winning book:

"He appeared to the public a drab little man, round of face and body, who spoke in banalities. Behind this facade lay the skill of a political genius and a mind sharp enough to confound all his contemporaries. Radical, reformer, scholar, philosopher, historian, spiritualist, Mackenzie King was the Incredible Canadian. He grasped the reins of a leaderless party, brought it to power and then clung to the Prime Minister's office longer than any man in the history of the British Commonwealth. Few people have understood the convolutions of Mackenzie King's mind, his complexity, his contradictions, his idealism and devotion to Canada as does Bruce Hutchison. The Incredible Canadian has all the elements of thrilling fiction. It refutes for all time the notion that Canadian history is dull or includes no colourful figures. This is more than a biography of Mackenzie King. Rather it is the engrossing story of the times which created the man and how the man shaped the times to suit his purposes."

The Incredible Canadian was awarded the Governor General's Award for creative nonfiction. The Wynford edition includes a new introduction by Vaughn Palmer, one of Canada's foremost political journalists and a winner of the Bruce Hutchison Award. Palmer's introduction puts both the book and Hutchison's career in historical context for modern readers. ... Read more

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Title: A fragile time.(Stephen Harper)
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Title: The politics of limited expectations.(PRESIDENT'S NOTE)
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Title: Conservatives should thank Cadman: independent MP saved them from a doomed election led by hard-right Harper.(CANADA)
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