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David Wilson, author of the Thomas D'Arcy McGee biographies, will be featured on CBC's The Sunday Edition November 6th.
The newly published Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 2: The Extreme Moderate, 1857-1868 is a compelling and comprehensive biography of Thomas D'Arcy McGee's political career in Canada. It is the sequel to Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857 which covers McGee's early Irish and American career.
Upcoming Events
November 6 and 10 – The McGee Band, featuring David A. Wilson, will be touring Ontario East to celebrate the publication of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 2.
November 17 – Public lecture: David A. Wilson on his new book Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 2 at Concordia University.
November 20 – Author appearance / Book signing: Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 2 at Paragraph Books and Breakfast
Praise for Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 2
"A magnificent achievement. The narrative has tension and momentum, even though we know the final tragic scene. This is the triumphant finale of years of scholarship and must rank as one of the great historical biographies of our time." Liam Kennedy, Queen's University, Belfast
"[Wilson] demonstrates persuasively that D’Arcy McGee, erratic but often brilliant, was the poet, the orator and the most profound thinker of Canadian colonial politics. While Macdonald was a supreme practitioner of politics as the art of the possible, McGee was a representation incarnate of all the conflicts and reconciliations of religion, language, ethnicity and religion in 19th-century." The Montreal Gazette
"The skilful blend of McGee's own words and Wilson's analysis will surely make even the most disinterested student of history feel at least a tiny bit prouder to be Canadian." Quill & Quire
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