Download or read book Unbuttoned written by Christopher Dummitt and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Mackenzie King Diaries written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mackenzie King Diaries 1932 1949 written by William Lyon Mackenzie King and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mackenzie King Diaries 1893 1931 Introduction and Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King written by Allan Levine and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Mackenzie King Diaries written by William Lyon Mackenzie King and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King William Lyon Mackenzie The Mackenzie King Diaries 1893 1931 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie (1874-1950) served as prime minister from 1921-1926, 1926-1930, and 1935-1948. The microfiche edition of "The Mackenzie King Diaries, 1893-1931" was originally published by the University of Toronto Press between 1973-1980. The diaries document the personal and public life of Mackenzie. The Microtext Section of the University of Toronto Libraries provides a summary of the content of the diaries, as well as details about the microfiche format of the diaries housed within its collection. Bibliographic details about the print edition of the diaries are available.
Download or read book The Mackenzie King Diaries 1893 1950 written by William Lyon Mackenzie King and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King written by William Lyon Mackenzie King and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mackenzie King diaries 1893 1950 written by William Lyon Mackenzie King and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mackenzie King diaries 1893 1950 written by William Lyon Mackenzie King and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King written by lian goodall and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King Diaries MG 26 J 13 written by William Lyon Mackenzie King and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mackenzie King Diaries 1932 1949 written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mackenzie King Record written by J. W. Pickersgill and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Very Double Life written by C. P. Stacey and published by Formac Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shrewd politician whose private life was one of bizzare and obsessive drives, sex life, love affairs, seances.
Download or read book Mackenzie King written by Louise Reynolds and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Dead men', they say, 'tell the most interesting tales'. In Mackenzie King's case that is certainly true. While he did not write his own life story because time simply ran out, he did leave behind his extensive diaries and personal letters which are an author's dream come true. Many writers accessed this material with the result that more has been written about King than about any other Canadian Prime Minister. The primary interest was in him as a politician and, as a result, the personal side of his life was either neglected or used to ridicule his memory. You need only mention his name and you are told of his intense love for his mother, of his interest in spiritualism (to the extent of 'talking' to the departed, including his little dogs) and then there were the reconstructed 'ruins' at his summer house in Kingsmere. It does not go much deeper than that. What might have been learned about King's personal life had he written his autobiography? At one time he had considered doing this saying, '[I] should write my own memoirs when the right time comes, not lay bare my soul before others.' Had he written, it would surely have been a heavily censored story. It is difficult to think that he would have told the reader of his storms of passion or details of his sessions at the 'little table'. This book, Mackenzie King: Friends & Lovers, takes the reader into its confidence, introducing first his family background, then his closest friends, male and female. As well, there is a chapter on his association with the various Governors-General of Canada from 1900 to 1950. Yes, knowing King's life story as we now do, it would be interesting to learn how he would have written about it. Spiritualism seems to be on the decline but has anyone consulted the weegieboard recently?
