Richard Gwyn book launch: "John A: The Man Who Made Us"

The first full-scale biography in half a century of Canada's first prime minister, by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers. This first volume follows John A. Macdonald's life from his birth in Scotland to his emigration to Kingston, Ontario, the birth of his political ambitions, his commitment to the all but impossible challenge of achieving Confederation and, finally, to his presiding over the new Dominion's first Canada Day in 1867. Colourful and intensely human, Macdonald is Canada's most important prime minister. In pages brimming with anecdote, insight, detail and originality, Gwyn has created an indelible portrait of "the irreplaceable man."