Three Sketches of the Personal Life and Ideas of R.B. Bennett, 1870–1947
by P.B. Waite
Price:
$24.95
ISBN: 9780802074010
Pub Date: September 1992
Canada’s bachelor prime ministers have always provided extraordinary material for biographers. Richard Bedford Bennett is no exception. In this volume P.B. Waite offers three entertaining essays on the personal life of Canada’s Depression prime minister.
Professor Waite has ably and intimately portrayed the private life of a late-Victorian politican: the sacrifice of home comforts, the loneliness of Ottawa, and the sense of public duty that drive Thomson, despite his natural inclinations, to persist in government service.
John A. Macdonald’s flamboyant personality dominated Canadian public life from the years preceding Confederation to the end of the 19th century. ‘Probably the greatest Canadian biography yet published in English’ – Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Politics, Newspapers, and the Union of British North America
by P.B. Waite
Price:
$50.00
ISBN: 9781487584511
Pub Date: December 1962
The last history of Confederation was R. G. Trotter's Canadian Federation, published in 1924. Since that time, much work has beendone on this seminal period of Canadian history. This present book begins roughly where Professor Whitelaw's ended. It is a study of ideas and politics in the province of Canada, 1864-1867.
