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The Loner: Three Sketches of the Personal Life and Ideas of R.B. Bennett, 1870-1947 (Joanne Goodman Lectures) - Softcover

Waite, Peter

 
9780802074010: The Loner: Three Sketches of the Personal Life and Ideas of R.B. Bennett, 1870-1947 (Joanne Goodman Lectures)
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ISBN 10: 0802074014 ISBN 13: 9780802074010
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 1992

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Canada’s bachelor prime ministers have always provided extraordinary material for biographers. Richard Bedford Bennett is no exception. In this volume P.B. Waite offers three entertaining essays on the personal life of Canada’s Depression prime minister.

The first essay is set in New Brunswick, where Bennett grew up. It focuses on Bennett’s youth and the early influences on his character: school, church, and family. The second, covering his years as a Calgary businessman and an Ottawa MP, explores the development of Bennett’s political ideas, his views on the British Empire and Canada’s place within it. The third essay covers his years as Conservative leader and prime minister; it deals with the women in Bennett’s life, particularly his close relationship with his sister and his romance with Hazel Kemp Colville.

After his death in 1947, Bennett’s devoted secretary destroyed many of his personal papers. Waite has risen masterfully to his challenge. In his skilful hands the private Bennett is revealed in a new and fascinating light.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Peter Waite is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at Dalhousie University.


P.B. WAITE is Professor Emeritus of History at Dalhousie University, a former student of Donald Creighton, and the author of The Man from Halifax: Sir John Thompson.

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'Elegantly written and soundly supported by documentary references The Loner is a major biography of a controversial prime minister who has been too long caricatured as the stereotypical insensitive capitalist unwilling to relate the needs of Canadians at a dark hour in their history'

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'Elegantly written and soundly supported by documentary references The Loner is a major biography of a controversial prime minister who has been too long caricatured as the stereotypical insensitive capitalist unwilling to relate the needs of Canadians at a dark hour in their history'

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802074014
ISBN 13 
9780802074010
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
130
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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