Printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper.First edition of The Young Politician © Donald G. Creighton 1952
Published by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited
First edition of The Old Chieftain © Donald G. Creighton 1955
Published by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited
Paperback reprint of The Young Politician and The Old Chieftain
with the new introduction by P.B. Waite first published in 1998
This edition of The Young Politician and The Old Chieftain
© Estate of Donald G. Creighton 2018
Introductions by P.B. Waite and Donald Wright
© University of Toronto Press 2018
Toronto Buffalo London
Printed in the U.S.A.
ISBN 978-1-4875-2287-2
Printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Creighton, Donald, 1902−1979, author
John A. Macdonald: the young politician, the old chieftain /
Donald Creighton; with an introduction by P.B. Waite and a new
introduction by Donald Wright. – New edition.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 978-1-4875-2287-2 (softcover)
1. Macdonald, John A. (John Alexander), 1815−1891. 2. Prime ministers –
Canada − Biography. 3. Canada − Politics and government − 1867−1896.
4. Canada − Politics and government − 1841−1867. 5. Biographies. I. Title.
FC521.M3C74 2018 971.05′1092 C2017-907852-6
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its
publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts
Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
