Angus L. Macdonald: A Provincial Liberal

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Author: T. Stephen Henderson

ISBN-10: 0802092314

ISBN-13: 9780802092311

Category: Canada - Political Biography

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...

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'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