Author: J. W. PickersgillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The Many Lives of William Lyon Mackenzie King
Author: Barry CahillPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527504891
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
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.
The Mackenzie King Record
Author: J. W. PickersgillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The Mackenzie King Record
Author: J. W. PickersgillPublisher: Heritage
ISBN: 9781487581251
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Volume I of the Mackenzie King Record carried the story of Mackenzie King as wartime Prime Minister of Canada down to mid-1944. When Volume II begins he has just returned from important London meetings of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers during which he had addressed the combined Houses of Parliament at Westminster.
W.L. Mackenzie King
Author: Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442655607
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This comprehensive bibliography on William Lyon Mackenzie King, the most prominent Canadian politician in the first half of the twentieth century, will be an invaluable reference tool for researchers in archives and libraries, as well as for political scientists, historians, journalists, and book collectors. In this volume Henderson provides comprehensive lists of books, articles, and other material written by King or about him and his era, and includes a series of appendices relating to studies on King and miscellaneous material pertaining to his life and career. In addition, Henderson provides a list of unsigned articles by King that appeared in newspapers and periodicals, and of sound recordings and motion picture footage relating to him. Finally, he identifies all forewords and prefaces written by King, plays written about him, and books and poems dedicated to him.
The Mackenzie King Record
Author: J. W. PickersgillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The Mackenzie King Record
Author: John Whitney PickersgillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Unbuttoned
Author: Christopher DummittPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773549390
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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.
The Mackenzie King Record
Author: J. W. PickersgillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Mackenzie King Record
Author: J. W. PickersgillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Continues the record begun in William Lyon Mackenzie King, a political biography by R.M. Dawson.
The Mackenzie King Record
Author: J. W. PickersgillPublisher: Heritage
ISBN: 9781487581244
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
In this volume, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada for 25 years, tells in his own words of his activities in public life and the events of the momentous years from 1939 to 1944, as recorded in his personal diary.