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"...a brilliant piece of scholarship: exhaustively researched, scrupulously fair, thoroughly documented." Roger Hall, Globe & Mail
"...both elegant and mature, a biographical tour de force." Victor Rabinovitch, Literary Review of Canada
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A brilliant writer, outstanding orator, and charismatic politician, Thomas D'Arcy McGee is best known for his prominent role in Irish-Canadian politics, his inspirational speeches in support of Canadian Confederation, and his assassination by an Irish revolutionary who accused him of betraying his earlier Irish nationalist principles. "Thomas D'Arcy McGee: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857", the first volume in a two-part biography, explores the development of those principles in Ireland and the United States. From his early temperance speeches in Wexford, Ireland, David Wilson follows McGee across the Atlantic, where at nineteen he became the editor of America's leading Irish newspaper, and traces his subsequent involvement with the Young Ireland movement, his reactions to the Famine, and his role in the Rising of 1848. Wilson goes on to explore McGee's experiences as a political refugee in the United States, where his increasing disillusionment with revolutionary Irish nationalism and his opposition to American nativism propelled him towards conservative Catholicism, and sent him on a trajectory that ultimately led to Canada - the subject of Volume II, "Thomas D'Arcy McGee: The Extreme Moderate, 1857-1868".
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A Fantastic Book, Mar 22 2009
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This review is from: Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857 (Hardcover)
If you want to read something about Ireland and Irish-America -- something true and real -- purchase this wonderful volume by David A. Wilson. Scholarly and well-written. Clear-eyed, uninterested in Shamrockery. A joy to read.
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