{"product_id":"donald-creighton-a-life-in-history-paperback","title":"Donald Creighton: A Life in History - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald A. Wright\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA member of the same intellectual generation as Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and George Grant, Donald Creighton (1902-1979) was English Canada's first great historian. The author of eleven books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence\u003c\/em\u003e and a two-volume biography of John A. Macdonald, Creighton wrote history as if it \"had happened,\" he said, \"the day before yesterday.\" And as a public intellectual, he advised the prime minister of Canada, the premier of Ontario, and - at least on one occasion - the British government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet he was, as Donald Wright shows, also profoundly out of step with his times. As the nation was re-imagined along bilingual and later multicultural lines in the 1960s and 1970s, Creighton defended a British definition of Canada at the same time as he began to fear that he would be remembered only \"as a pessimist, a bigot, and a violent Tory partisan.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough his virtuoso research into Creighton's own voluminous papers, Wright paints a sensitive portrait of a brilliant but difficult man. Ultimately, \u003cem\u003eDonald Creighton\u003c\/em\u003e captures the twentieth-century transformation of English Canada through the life and times of one of its leading intellectuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 05, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53212178579763,"sku":"9781442626829","price":94.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/0kkJ_aolbN9781442626829.webp?v=1775682393","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/donald-creighton-a-life-in-history-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}