Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King a political biography 2 1924 1932 the lonely heights written by Robert MacGregor Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King Volume II 1924 1932 written by H. Blair Neatby and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1963-12-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of the official biography of Mackenzie King (the first, written by R. MacG. Dawson, was published in 1958) covers the years 1924 to 1932. At the opening of this period, King was still an inexperienced and untried leader but the next few years were to test his qualities as he dealt with the concessions and compromises necessary in governing with an unstable majority and finally emerged the winner from the complicated chess games of parliamentary sessions. The Liberal success in the election of 1926 returned to office a Prime Minister with confidence in his own judgment and more inclined to hold firm to his own opinions against opposition from his colleagues or his party. After this election and the outcome of that in 1930, which handed over to the Conservatives the problems of the depression, the myth of King's political infallibility continued to grow. But a less able man would have been less lucky. As this book shows, King was a consummate party leader, with an unusual sensitivity to political danger and an unusual capacity to learn from his mistakes. In the years 1924 to 1932 a number of familiar Canadian issues had to be dealt with: freight rates on land and sea, the debate between a tariff for protection, the problems of the Maritime Provinces, the natural resources of the Prairie Provinces, old age pensions, the St. Lawrence Waterway, immigration. There were also other more striking incidents, which the author chronicles with verve and style: the customs scandal of 1926, the heady pleasures of the years of prosperity and the dismal frustrations of the years of depression, the election of 1930, the Beauharnois sensation. Throughout skilful use is made of the public records of these years, of the King papers, and the copious pages of King's own daily diary of his political problems, his conversations with colleagues and diplomats, his worries and frustrations over difficult decisions, his own aims and ideals. Over these years King developed and strengthened his convictions about the over-riding concern of all Canadian political leaders, national unity. Only a proper estimate of what was desirable, what was necessary, and what was impossible could guide in the working out of policies that would be tolerable by the whole of Canada, and it was, of course, King's firm belief and the guiding principle of his political life that the cause of national unity was best served by the cause of Liberalism, since that party above all represented the major sections or groups in Canada and alone could effect a satisfactory compromise among them. This book, brilliant and effective in conception and execution, is a study of political leadership in a divided nation, a nation which even in calmer times is proverbially difficult to govern. It is also a revealing and convincing study of a complex man whose drab public image concealed unsuspected eccentricities.
Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King A Political Biography written by Robert MacGregor Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King Volume II 1924 1932 written by H. Blair Neatby and published by . This book was released on 1963-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King 1924 1932 The lonely heights by H B Neatby written by Robert MacGregor Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King A Partir Du Vol 2 H Blair Neatby A Political Biography written by Robert MacGregor Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King 1924 1932 the lonely heights written by Robert MacGregor Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King 1924 1932 written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King written by H. Blair Neatby and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King written by H. Blair Neatby and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King written by H. Blair Neatby and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Lyon Mackenzie King 1924 1932 The lonely heights written by Robert MacGregor Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Many Lives of William Lyon Mackenzie King written by Barry Cahill and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. L. Mackenzie King (1874-1950) was Canada’s longest-serving, best-known and certainly most unusual prime minister. The keeper of a famous series of candid personal diaries, he is a gift to the biographer. King did not live long enough to write his planned memoirs, and his official biography remains long unfinished. As a result, some 24 biographies of him have been published, with different purposes and from different perspectives. They are a study in extreme contrasts. This is a critical collective history of those works, published between 1922 and 2014.
