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Author | : Christopher Dummitt |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2017-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0773549390 |
When Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King died in 1950, the public knew little about his eccentric private life. In his final will King ordered the destruction of his private diaries, seemingly securing his privacy for good. Yet twenty-five years after King's death, the public was bombarded with stories about "Weird Willie," the prime minister who communed with ghosts and cavorted with prostitutes. Unbuttoned traces the transformation of the public’s knowledge and opinion of King's character, offering a compelling look at the changing way Canadians saw themselves and measured the importance of their leaders’ personal lives. Christopher Dummitt relates the strange posthumous tale of King's diary and details the specific decisions of King's literary executors. Along the way we learn about a thief in the public archives, stolen copies of King's diaries being sold on the black market, and an RCMP hunt for a missing diary linked to the search for Russian spies at the highest levels of the Canadian government. Analyzing writing and reporting about King, Dummitt concludes that the increasingly irreverent views of King can be explained by a fundamental historical transformation that occurred in the era in which King's diaries were released, when the rights revolution, Freud, 1960s activism, and investigative journalism were making self-revelation a cultural preoccupation. Presenting extensive archival research in a captivating narrative, Unbuttoned traces the rise of a political culture that privileged the individual as the ultimate source of truth, and made Canadians rethink what they wanted to know about politicians.
Author | : H. Blair Neatby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1963-12-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781487592547 |
"Cover"--"CONTENTS"--"PREFACE" -- "1 THE REINS OF OFFICE" -- "2 A MEASURE OF BOLDNESS" -- "3 EDUCATING DOWNING STREET" -- "4 IN SEARCH OF AN ISSUE" -- "5 THE HUNG JURY" -- "6 PARLIAMENT WILL DECIDE" -- "7 THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY" -- "8 A HOUSE DIVIDED" -- "9 THE JURY DECIDES" -- "10 DEFINING THE UNDEFINABLE" -- "11 THE GOOD LIFE" -- "12 TINKERING WITH FEDERALISM" -- "13 THE POLITICS OF PROSPERITY" -- "14 LOOKING SOUTH" -- "15 SHORING UP THE OLD ORDER" -- "16 THE CALL TO ACTION" -- "17 A REMEDY IS PRESCRIBED" -- "18 THE VALLEY OF HUMILIATION" -- "19 THE DISTORTIONS OF REALITY" -- "NOTES" -- "INDEX" -- "A" -- "B" -- "C" -- "D" -- "E" -- "F" -- "G" -- "H" -- "I" -- "J" -- "K" -- "L" -- "M" -- "N" -- "O" -- "P" -- "R" -- "S" -- "T" -- "U" -- "V
Author | : William Lyon Mackenzie King |
Publisher | : New York : Revell |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Heroes |
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Author | : William Lyon Mackenzie King |
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Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Industrial organization |
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Author | : William Lyon Mackenzie King |
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Arbitration, Industrial |
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Author | : lian goodall |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1770706860 |
Mackenzie King (1874-1950) was Canadas tenth and longest serving prime minister and an important figure on the international scene, especially during the Second World War. This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of Mackenzie King.
Author | : Irving M. Abella |
Publisher | : New York : Random House |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This book traces the evolution and execution of Canadian immigration policy during the Great Depression, when the pressure of unemployment prevented large-scaleimmigration of any kind, through World War II and its aftermath. During this period, immigration regulations were restrictive, with Jews, Orientals and blacks at the bottom of the list. The authors describe how, as in all democracies, Canada's policies and her public servants were subject to the will of the people and to political considerations.
Author | : Gerald Hallowell |
Publisher | : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195424386 |
This indispensable guide to Canadian history is comprehensive, authoritative, and - above all - companionable. It is the essential guide to the significant events, issues, institutions, people, and places that have shaped Canadian life from earliest times to the late twentieth century.
Author | : C. P. Stacey |
Publisher | : Formac Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0887801366 |
A shrewd politician whose private life was one of bizzare and obsessive drives, sex life, love affairs, seances.
Author | : Allan Levine |
Publisher | : D & M Publishers |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 2011-09-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1553659082 |
William Lyon Mackenzie King, twice former Prime Minister of Canada, was a brilliant tactician, was passionately committed to Canadian unity, and was a protector of the underdog, introducing such cornerstones of Canada’s social safety net as unemployment insurance, family allowances and old-age pensions. At the same time, he was insecure, craved flattery, became upset at minor criticism, and was prone to fantasy—especially about the Tory conspiracy against him. King loosened the Imperial connection with Britain and was wary of American military and economic power. Yet he loved all things British and acted like a praised schoolboy when British Prime Minister Winston Churchill or U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt treated him as an equal. This first major biography of Mackenzie King in 30 years mines the pages of his remarkable diary, at 30,000 pages one of the most significant and revealing political documents in Canada’s history and a guide to the deep and often moving inner conflicts that haunted Mackenzie King. With animated prose and a subtle wit, Allan Levine draws a multidimensional portrait of this most compelling of politicians.