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AKENSON, DON The Orangeman: The Life and Times of Ogle Gowan
Toronto Ontario, James Lorimer & Company. 1986, First Edition. (ISBN: 0 88862 963 X) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Jack McMaster (cover illustration). Clear Brodart Covering, Black boards, gilt stamped lettering. Pictorial dust jacket; slight toning; small water stain on bottom edge. Very clean, sound copy. 330 pages including Note on Sources by chapter. "Ogle Cowan - the Irish upstart who turned Ontario Orange - was a self-seeking, treacherous scoundrel who brought his tattered reputation to the raw frontier of Upper Canada and built the powerful Protestestant machine that shaped Canadian history for more than one hundred years .. an extraordinary portrait of a political parvenu whose behaviour was a scandal in his own time but who left an indelible mark upon [Canada's] history." (Jacket) [Shipping at cost]. Near Fine/Very Good.
Offered for US$ 30.00 by: Literacy Nanaimo - Book number: 003398
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