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The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1867-1968: Macdonald to Trudeau

Christopher Ondaatje

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Description:In just over a century Canada has had fifteen Prime Ministers. This book brings to light the incredible personal stories of these men together with their accomplishments and failures. They have been totally unlike one another, men who came to the most powerful office in the nation by widely different routes.Some, like Macdonald and Mackenzie King, learned such mastery of the machinery of government that their manipulations were scarcely perceptible to their colleagues, much less to the voters. And others, like Bennett, never understood that politics is not a logical science but the art of the intangible and the accidental.They baffled their opponents, they astonished their supporters, and today these fifteen men of enormous influence are still almost unknown to many Canadians. The four Prime Ministers who held office between the death of Macdonald in 1891 and the election of Laurier in 1896 are scarcely more than names to us: the business-like Abbott who didn't want the job and ruled from the Senate; the brilliant Sir John Thompson, first Roman Catholic Prime Minister, Macdonald's "great discovery", who dropped dead at Windsor Castle after being sworn into the Privy Council; the old Orangeman, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, who lost a cabinet revolt and quit after saying he had been in the company of a "nest of traitors" for months; and the vigorous and able Sir Charles Tupper, scornfully referred to by Thompson as "that old tramp".Even the men whose careers have been explored at length, Macdonald, Laurier, and King, remain inexhaustibly interesting as much for their weaknesses and inconsistencies as for their achievements. And to our generation perhaps the most fascinating politician to have reached the pinnacle of political power in Canada is Pierre Elliott Trudeau.All of their stories, from Macdonald to Trudeau, are, in large part, the story of Canada - the triumphs and tragedies of the nation as well as of its leaders from 1867 to 1968.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1867-1968: Macdonald to Trudeau. To get started finding The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1867-1968: Macdonald to Trudeau, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 191

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Publisher: Pagurian Press Limited

Release: 1968

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Description: In just over a century Canada has had fifteen Prime Ministers. This book brings to light the incredible personal stories of these men together with their accomplishments and failures. They have been totally unlike one another, men who came to the most powerful office in the nation by widely different routes.Some, like Macdonald and Mackenzie King, learned such mastery of the machinery of government that their manipulations were scarcely perceptible to their colleagues, much less to the voters. And others, like Bennett, never understood that politics is not a logical science but the art of the intangible and the accidental.They baffled their opponents, they astonished their supporters, and today these fifteen men of enormous influence are still almost unknown to many Canadians. The four Prime Ministers who held office between the death of Macdonald in 1891 and the election of Laurier in 1896 are scarcely more than names to us: the business-like Abbott who didn't want the job and ruled from the Senate; the brilliant Sir John Thompson, first Roman Catholic Prime Minister, Macdonald's "great discovery", who dropped dead at Windsor Castle after being sworn into the Privy Council; the old Orangeman, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, who lost a cabinet revolt and quit after saying he had been in the company of a "nest of traitors" for months; and the vigorous and able Sir Charles Tupper, scornfully referred to by Thompson as "that old tramp".Even the men whose careers have been explored at length, Macdonald, Laurier, and King, remain inexhaustibly interesting as much for their weaknesses and inconsistencies as for their achievements. And to our generation perhaps the most fascinating politician to have reached the pinnacle of political power in Canada is Pierre Elliott Trudeau.All of their stories, from Macdonald to Trudeau, are, in large part, the story of Canada - the triumphs and tragedies of the nation as well as of its leaders from 1867 to 1968.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1867-1968: Macdonald to Trudeau. To get started finding The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1867-1968: Macdonald to Trudeau, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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