Sir John A.'s Crusade and Seward's Magnificent Folly Sir John A.'s Crusade and Seward's Magnificent Folly

Sir John A.'s Crusade and Seward's Magnificent Folly

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Publisher Description

International intrigue on the eve of the birth of a nation at Britain’s Highclere Castle, aka Downton Abbey.

In late 1866, John A. Macdonald and other Fathers of Confederation arrived in London to begin discussions with Britain to create Canada. Macdonald and two of his colleagues stayed briefly at Highclere Castle in Hampshire, the stately home of the Fourth Earl of Carnarvon, Britain’s colonial secretary. Those are the facts.

Today Highclere Castle is widely known as the real-life location for the popular television series Downton Abbey. In Richard Rohmer’s novel, Macdonald talks with Carnarvon at Highclere about legislation to give Canada autonomy, the danger of Irish Fenian assassination plots, and the proposed American purchase of Alaska from Russia. Later, back in London, a fire partially destroys Macdonald’s hotel room, and the future prime minister, trying to curb his fondness for alcohol, woos and marries his second wife, Agnes. In the end, Macdonald wins the passage of the British North America Act but fails in his bid for Alaska when U.S. Secretary of State William Seward buys that strategic territory.

Secret deals, romance, and international intrigue all figure in this rousing tale of historical speculation set on the eve of the birth of a nation.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
January 5
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Dundurn Press
SELLER
Dundurn Press Limited
SIZE
1
MB
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