{"product_id":"sir-john-a-an-anecdotal-life-of-john-a-macdonald-9780195406818","title":"Sir John A.: An Anecdotal Life of John A. MacDonald","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jack MacLeod | Cynthia M. Smith | Jack McLeod\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Canada\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald (1815-91) had a forty-seven year career in Parliament that permanently shaped the course of Canadian political life. \u003cem\u003eSir John A.; An Anecdotal Life of John A. Macdonald\u003c\/em\u003e gives us the man behind the legend. Lively and revealing anecdotes about Sir John A.'s political and parliamentary life are set against stories of his private joys and sorrows-the death of his brother at the hands of a drunken servant; his rebellious youth; the illness of his beautiful first wife, and her addiction to opium; his courtship and second marriage; the tragedy of his only daughter, born with hydrocephalus; his womanizing; and his life-long battle with alcohol. Stories of patronage, of political campaigns, of loyal supporters and bitter opponents take readers through many of the major events of the nineteenth-century Canada, from the building of the CPR to the Riel Rebellions, to name only a few.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press Canada","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47892531904663,"sku":"9780195406818","price":2048.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780195406818.webp?v=1781187380","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sir-john-a-an-anecdotal-life-of-john-a-macdonald-9780195406818","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}