Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs: 1854-1915

Résumé du livre

Prime Minister of Canada for the most controversial decade in the country's history, Sir Robert Borden is one of the few Canadian public men to have written his memoirs. They are honest, straightforward, and fair; qualities similar to those possessed by the unpretentious Nova Scotia lawyer who became leader of the Conservative Party and Canada's prime minister during World War 1. Borden's Memoirs are the starting point for any study of Canadian politics during the stormy war-time years. They also afford intimate glimpses of the workings of the Conservative Party, Conscription, and the Canadian military effort in World War 1, and of diplomacy and peacemaking during the war. Originally published in 1938, just after Borden's death, the Memoirs were reissued in a new abridged edition.