Lord Beaconsfield and Sir John A. MacDonald: A Political and Personal Parallel

ISBN-13: 9781553394389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 106 str.

Joseph Tasse; James Penny; Michel W. Pharand

Opis

In 1880, French Canadian journalist Joseph Tasse wrote Un parallele: Lord Beaconsfield et Sir John Macdonald, a political comparison of Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), two-time prime minister of the United Kingdom, and Sir John A. Macdonald (1815-1891), the first prime minister of Canada. Eleven years later, the English translation by James Penny was published as Lord Beaconsfield and Sir John A. Macdonald: A Political and Personal Parallel. This new edition of a classic text marks the bicentennial of Sir John A. Macdonald s birth and the fortieth anniversary of the establishment of the Disraeli Project at Queen s University, and includes for the first time both the French original and a fully annotated English text. Emerging from Michel Pharand s research and the annotation of all Disraeli s correspondence, this volume celebrates the remarkable careers and personalities of both leaders by re-issuing the only extended comparison of these important and controversial nineteenth-century Conservative prime ministers. Demonstrating that their legacies continue to fascinate even in the twenty-first century, Lord Beaconsfield and Sir John A. Macdonald is an intriguing study of the lives and politics of these two impressive statesman."