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Excerpt from Lord Durham: A Biography of John George Lambton, First Earl of Durham These historical developments are dramatized for us by association with his personality. Much of the storminess of his life may be ascribed to the conflict of great political and social forces, but not a little of it was due to the directness of his methods, the loftiness of his courage, his hypersensitive pride, and his Violent temper. In him a magnificent manhood was hampered and marred by a singular childishness - a strange blending of noble visions and petty vanities, high sacrifices and puny impatience, sustained devotion and fiery temper, and through it all more than a touch of heroism. All his life the...
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This edition of Professor New's distinguished biography of Lord Durham, reproduces that portion (approximately one half) which deals with Durham's mission to Canada and the production of his famous Report. With its intimate picture of the political administration of the Canadas immediately after the 1837 rebellion, this has long been required reading for every student of Canadian history and politics.