Happy 198th Birthday, Sir John A. Macdonald! Read about him on eBooks
Sir John A. Macdonald
(1815-1891), Canada’s first Prime Minister, would have been celebrating the 198th
anniversary of his birth today on January 11th. Many Canadians have
learned about “Sir John A.” when they studied Canadian history at school and/or
perhaps when immigrants to Canada were preparing to take their Canadian
citizenship test. No matter, whether you know about “Sir John A.” or not, if
you are someone who enjoys reading factual biographies about real people, the
country’s former First Minister makes an interesting topic for a biography. For
books about Sir John A. Macdonald that I have previously reviewed, please consult
the following blog posts for additional information:
Political
Leaders Dying in Office: Laurier, Layton, Macdonald and Thompson
Pick
a PM: Prime Ministerial Biographies and Memoirs
Several of those
titles that I previously reviewed are now available as eBooks through Toronto
Public Library:
Nation maker Sir John A. Macdonald : his life, our times.
Volume two, 1867 – 1891
Gwyn, Richard J., 1934-
eBook, 2011. 1 online resource :
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John A. Volume 1, 1815-1867 the man who made us : the life
and times of John A. Macdonald
Gwyn, Richard J., 1934-
eBook, 2011. 1 online resource.
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Pennington, Christopher John, 1977-
eBook, 2011. 1 online resource.
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If you are not sure whether eBooks are a good format
for promoting biographies and history, consider the fact that David G. McCullough’s
biography Truman
(of the former United States President Harry S. Truman – originally published
in 1992) was released recently as an eBook and made it onto the New
York Times e-Book Non-Fiction Best Sellers list.
For readers who enjoy historical fiction that
involves real people as characters in a novel, consider the following title
either in eBook or book format:
Macdonald
1st pbk. ed.
MacSkimming, Roy, 1944-
eBook, 2011. 1 online resource.
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MacSkimming, Roy, 1944-
Book, 2007. 293 p. ;
0 holds / 20 copies
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