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A History of Mackenzie King's Secret Life
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2017
349 pages
978-0-7735-4938-8 (ISBN)
Description
How Canadians reimagined what a politician should be.
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05/2017
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Dummitt Christopher:
Christopher Dummitt is associate professor of history in the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University.Christopher Dummitt is associate professor of history in the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University.
Christopher Dummitt is associate professor of history in the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University.Christopher Dummitt is associate professor of history in the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University.
Content
- Cover
- Unbuttoned
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Part One King, Then and Later
- 1 Changing Tastes
- 2 Death of a Statesman
- Part Two Keeping Secrets (or Trying to)
- 3 Psychic Newsflash
- 4 The Official Story
- 5 Striking an Unhappy Medium
- Part Three No One Could Fool the People So Long
- 6 Statesman or Politician?
- 7 Blame Freud
- 8 Ferns and Ostry
- 9 Official Secrets
- Part Four On the Precipice
- 10 End of an Era
- 11 Close-Up
- 12 Ravenous for the Remaining Courses
- 13 Final Spasm of Hypocrisy
- 14 To Open or Not to Open
- Part Five The People Unfooled
- 15 Weird Willie
- 16 Victorianitis
- 17 The Cover-Up Is the Story
- 18 The Greatest Prime Minister?
- Conclusion
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
