{"product_id":"donald-creighton-a-life-in-history-9781442626829","title":"Donald Creighton: A Life in History","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Donald A. Wright\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\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","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46506748412055,"sku":"9781442626829","price":4781.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781442626829.webp?v=1769197214","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/donald-creighton-a-life-in-history-9781442626829","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}