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Dummitt, Chris, 1973-
Subjects
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950.
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950 -- In mass media.
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950 -- Public opinion.
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950 -- Diaries.
Prime ministers -- Canada -- Biography.
Politicians -- Canada -- Public opinion.
Political culture -- Canada.
Canada -- Politics and government -- 1921-1930.
Canada -- Politics and government -- 1935-1948.
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Dummitt, Chris, 1973-
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950.
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950 -- In mass media.
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950 -- Public opinion.
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950 -- Diaries.
Prime ministers -- Canada -- Biography.
Politicians -- Canada -- Public opinion.
Political culture -- Canada.
Canada -- Politics and government -- 1921-1930.
Canada -- Politics and government -- 1935-1948.
MARC Display
Unbuttoned
: a
history
of
Mackenzie
King
's
secret
life
/ Christopher Dummitt.
by
Dummitt, Chris, 1973-
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
Call #:
971.0622 K54d
Subjects
King
, William Lyon
Mackenzie
, 1874-1950.
King
, William Lyon
Mackenzie
, 1874-1950 -- In mass media.
King
, William Lyon
Mackenzie
, 1874-1950 -- Public opinion.
King
, William Lyon
Mackenzie
, 1874-1950 -- Diaries.
Prime ministers -- Canada -- Biography.
Politicians -- Canada -- Public opinion.
Political culture -- Canada.
Canada -- Politics and government -- 1921-1930.
Canada -- Politics and government -- 1935-1948.
ISBN:
9780773548763 (hc.)
Description:
xxii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
This book is a
history
of the afterlife of
Mackenzie
King
in print and in Canadian culture. When
King
died in 1950 little was known publicly about his eccentric private
life
;
King
's final will declared that his voluminous diary should be destroyed and its contents were carefully guarded during the research and writing of his official biography. Yet twenty-five years later, his diaries were publicly available and
King
's private
life
was the subject of energetic media discussion.
King
increasingly came to be known in public as Weird Willie, the prime minister who communed with ghosts and cavorted with prostitutes. This book tells the story of this change and what it reveals about public attitudes towards politicians. It does so in part through detailed archival research into the specific decisions of
Mackenzie
King
's literary executors along with close textual analysis of writing about and reporting on
Mackenzie
King
. It also reads this story against the context of the cultural changes of the long 1960s and changing attitudes towards privacy, secrecy, morality, individualism and the rights revolution. The increasingly irreverent approach to
Mackenzie
King
, the book argues, can be explained by the rise of a therapeutic culture of the self that increasingly based truth claims in individual experience, authenticity, and rights. In other words, the Weird Willie phenomenon is a microcosm of a fundamental historical transformation: the end of the era of the statesman.
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