About the Author T. Stephen Henderson is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Classics at Acadia University. Perhaps one of the most influential Canadian premiers of the Twentieth Century and one of the leading political intellectuals of his generation, Angus L. Macdonald dominated politics in Nova Scotia for more than twenty years, serving as premier from 1933 to 1940 and again from 1945 until his death in 1954. One rival referred to him as "the pope" out...
'T. Stephen Henderson sees Macdonald as an intellectual in politics, a man with a clear, coherent, Canadian, liberal vision of governance in a federal state. Angus L. Macdonald: A Provincial Liberal is a well researched, thoroughly informed biography of a major figure in the modern history of Canada.' -Carman Miller,
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 3Dunvegan to Halifax 10The Macdonald Decade 45Macdonald versus King 90The Provinces' Champion 150Limits of the Liberal State 180Conclusion 211Notes 217Bibliography 275Index 293