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William Lyon Mackenzie King

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1135040904

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William Lyon Mackenzie King: 1924-1932, the lonely heights

Author : Robert MacGregor Dawson,H. Blair Neatby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Prime ministers
ISBN : 0802071090

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William Lyon Mackenzie King: 1924-1932, the lonely heights by Robert MacGregor Dawson,H. Blair Neatby Pdf

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume II, 1924-1932

Author : H. Blair Neatby
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1963-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781487591144

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William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume II, 1924-1932 by H. Blair Neatby Pdf

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.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Author : H. Blair Neatby,Robert MacGregor Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:174209276

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William Lyon Mackenzie King

Author : H. Blair Neatby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1963-01-01
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:225363477

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William Lyon Mackenzie King

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:867282039

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William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume II, 1924-1932

Author : H. Blair Neatby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1963-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 148759254X

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William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume II, 1924-1932 by H. Blair Neatby Pdf

"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

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Author : H. Blair Neatby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:669672777

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William Lyon Mackenzie King: 1924-1932, The lonely heights

Author : Robert MacGregor Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Prime ministers
ISBN : UOM:49015002228212

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William Lyon Mackenzie King: 1924-1932, The lonely heights by Robert MacGregor Dawson Pdf

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume III, 1932-1939

Author : H. Blair Neatby
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1976-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781487591151

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William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume III, 1932-1939 by H. Blair Neatby Pdf

Aided by meticulous knowledge of the former Prime Minister's diary, and with characteristic conciseness and clarity, H. Blair Neatby has written the impressive and long-awaited third volume of the official biography of Mackenzie King. He carefully and judiciously untangles a complexity of issues in Canadian political history to produce definitive accounts of controversies that have engaged the attention of Canadian historians for years. Beginning the story in 1932, this volume treats the depression years when King was first in Opposition and then the years after 1935 when he was once again Prime Minister; it is a masterly analysis of how one of the most enigmatic figures in Canadian history made shrewd and critical political decisions. Attention is paid in turn to his clearly successful tactics as Leader of the Opposition; the election campaign of 1935; a wide range of his domestic policies, including those on unemployment, inflation, relief, and trade; and to a series of international crises – the Ethiopian crisis, the Spanish Civil War, Anschluss, and Munich – that culminated in the Second World War. At all times, King's overriding concern was to preserve national unity at home and to avoid commitments abroad, either through the British Commonwealth or the League of Nations. We see King in his relations with other Canadian leaders – Aberhart, Pattullo, Hepburn, Duplessis, and Bennett – and with world leaders – Roosevelt, Baldwin, Chamberlain, and Hitler. We also see the personal side of the man, and the link between the private and the public figure. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume III is an accomplished piece of historical writing; progressing in a controlled way through a profusion of incident and accident, it brings to completion the outstanding biography of a consummate politician.

W.L. Mackenzie King

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998-12-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781442655607

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W.L. Mackenzie King by Anonim Pdf

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 Many Lives of William Lyon Mackenzie King

Author : Barry Cahill
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781527504899

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The Many Lives of William Lyon Mackenzie King by Barry Cahill Pdf

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.

Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark

Author : Mary Janigan
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307400635

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Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark by Mary Janigan Pdf

The first big book on one of the most overlooked episodes in Canadian history, and the origin of today's greatest national debate, Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark relives the 1918 attempt by 3 premiers to wrest control of their natural resources away from Ottawa--and end their role as second-class provinces. The oil sands. Global warming. The National Energy Program. Though these seem like modern Canadian subjects, Mary Janigan reveals them to be a legacy of longstanding regional rivalry. Something of a "Third Solitude" since entering Confederation, the West has long been overshadowed by Canada's other great national debate. But as the conflict over natural resources and their effect on climate change heats up, 150 years of antipathy are coming to a head. Janigan takes readers back to a pivotal moment in 1918, when Canada's western premiers descended on Ottawa determined to control their own future--and as Margaret MacMillan did in Paris 1919, she deftly illustrates how the results reverberate to this day.

King

Author : Allan Gerald Levine
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781553655602

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King by Allan Gerald Levine Pdf

Advance Praise for King "Here we have Allan Levine, one of the aces of Canadian historical chronicles, channelling Mackenzie King. And what a story they have to tell: our longest-serving prime minister, getting advice from his dog and having two-way conversations with his long-dead mother. If Canadian history was ever dull, it isn't now. Get this book." Book jacket.

Churchill in North America, 1929

Author : Bradley P. Tolppanen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786479221

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Churchill in North America, 1929 by Bradley P. Tolppanen Pdf

Churchill took a three-month vacation to North America in the summer and fall of 1929, a little known event in his long career. In the company of his son Randolph, his brother Jack and his nephew Johnny, he toured Canada and the United States. Notable are Churchill's meetings with political, business, newspaper and entertainment figures (President Hoover, Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Bernard Baruch, William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies and Charlie Chaplin) as well as his visits to such landmarks as the Grand Canyon, Lake Louise, Niagara Falls and Yosemite. The Churchills also visited a lumber camp, slaughterhouse and steel factory, went fishing on the Pacific Ocean and inspected the battlefields in Quebec and Virginia. They evaded Prohibition and gambled on the stock market (about to crash). It was on this trip that Churchill gained an understanding of the two countries firsthand and deepened his feelings for Canada and the United States.