Donald Creighton: A Life in History
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (569 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1442626828 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Buckner The Dorchester Review Autumn/Winter 2015)‘Wright very self-consciously places his own biography within the romantic conventions of Creightonian history and romantic art, very appropriately joining together these two heroes. ‘Wright has not only written the definitive biography of one of Canada’s most important historians but provided us with a model of how a biography ought to be done.’ (Phillip A. And its attention to the psychology of the man, to the whole personality and life of its subject, is commendable.’ (Christopher Dummitt Acadiensis , vol 45:01:2016) . The great Canadian historian created the first hero; his biographer has created the second.’ (William Westfall Historical Studies in Education Spring 2016)’Donald Creighton is a beautifully written biography, easily the most ambitious biography I have read in a number of years
jennifer Brown said Donald Wright on Donald Creighton--an excellent read. This is an outstanding biography of Donald Creighton, a leading Canadian historian. It captures his personal character and familial relationships, along with his accomplishments and the controversies he generated as a conservative English-Canadian; it is finely written, balanced and insightful. Wright also vividly portrays Canadian academic life from the early 1900s to the 1970s, in the broader context of evolving Canadian politics and English-French relations. I read the book straight through, with gre
Donald Wright is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick
A 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. Ultimately, Donald Creighton captures the twentieth-century transformation of English Canada through the life and times of one of its leading intellectuals.. Lawrence 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 &ndas