PRAISE FOR

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Winner of the John W. Dafoe Prize
Finalist for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction

A Globe and Mail Best Book
A Quill & Quire Book of the Year
An Amazon.ca Best Book and Editors’ Pick

“No one looms larger over our history than Macdonald, and it’s essential to know about him if you want to know about Canada.… Gwyn tells John A.’s story inside and out and knows better than anyone that his story doesn’t sit on top of the country’s history: it’s woven in the fabric.”

Kate Beaton, National Post

“Wonderfully researched, engagingly written.… This is history on a grand scale, with a riveting central character and a country being literally built around him.”

Jeffrey Simpson, The Globe and Mail

“Thumping.… Stirring.… In telling the story of Confederation’s first steps, Gwyn has penned an excellent textbook in twenty-first-century Canadian politics.”

Paul Wells, Maclean’s

“Gwyn knows how to tell a good story and here he brings his two-volume life of Canada’s best-loved political figure to a satisfactory conclusion.… This is John A., warts and all.”

Winnipeg Free Press

“Such an engaging read.… Nation Maker brings a fresh, welcome perspective to the life of our founding father. Anyone who reads it will no longer be able to take this powerful, charismatic and dedicated man for granted.”

Quill & Quire (starred review)

“Seamless and stylish.”

Ken McGoogan, The Globe and Mail