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McNally Robinson Independent Bookstores holds a reading and signing of Richard J. Gwyn's Nation Maker, Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man who Made Us.
John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who made Confederation happen, who built this country over the next quarter century, and who shaped what it is today. From Confederation Day in 1867, where this volume picks up, Macdonald finessed a reluctant union of four provinces in central and eastern Canada into a strong nation, despite indifference from Britain and annexationist sentiment in the United States.
Indelibly, Gwyn shows us Macdonald's love of this country and his ability to joust with forces who would have been just as happy to see the end of Canada before it had really begun, creating a must-read for all Canadians.
