This book is based on the public career of a highly
controversial Canadian, Sam Hughes 1885-1916. He is one of the most
colourful, even bizarre, figures in Canadian history.
Though he died in 1921, his name can still conjure up
controversy and not a little misunderstanding. His long career--in
so many respects the quintessential story of a poor backwoods
Ontario farm boy who made good by his own efforts--continues to
exert a fascination that few other Canadian political figures could
duplicate.
Even though there has never been a major scholarly study of Sam
Hughes, historians and other writers have developed definite
opinions about him, and they are held nearly as vigorously as those
of his contemporaries. These vary from insisting that Hughes was
mentally unbalanced to proclaiming him a genius. Hughes' defenders
have rarely been professional historians. Neither side have not
produced an extensive or definitive literature on Hughes in
proportion to other figures of a similar public stature.
Whatever side the studies have taken, the assessments are still
incomplete because they have not examined the entirety of Sam
Hughes' public life. To a large extent these limitations have
allowed the folk image of him to persist. But Hughes had fibre and
substance beyond this. Since historical figures must be explained
in terms of their environment, this study tries to redress the
previous imbalances by examining Hughes' public career. It is the
only way his historical significance can be explained and
reasonable judgments made.
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