Sir john a macdonald biography of michael
Sir john a macdonald biography.
Sir john a macdonald biography of michael
The Private Man
Sir John A. MACDONALD, Canada’s first prime minister, was described by its fourth prime minister, Sir John Sparrow David THOMPSON, as the country’s “father and founder.” Macdonald’s biographers, J.
K. Johnson and P. B. Waite, characterize him in this way:
“Macdonald had an elasticity of mind and range of information rare in Canada and unusual anywhere. He joined to that a huge and irreverent sense of humour.
He wore the dignity of his office, well and good; he had style, manners, and vocabulary, but they were often a mask and the real Macdonald would show through it, especially if he caught the eye of an old friend. With his friends, he rarely worried about being what later Victorians might have called respectable. He was never a later Victorian anyway.
When his affairs were in a tangle, when he was depressed, when he was unable to put things off, he might get drunk: more often he would open up the truth in conversatio