A very double life: The private world of Mackenzie King

by Charles Perry Stacey

Book Overview

Stacey's book was the first to examine in detail the convoluted, often bizarre private life of one of Canada's most influential Prime Ministers. To the outside world, Mackenzie King was the shrewd... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0770513905
• ISBN13: 9780770513900
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Macmillan of Canada
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

When Canada was governed by a loon...

Attentive students will recall that Prime Minister King was a bit odd, perhaps a mild eccentric, but this book will throw the door wide open. Essentially, WLM King was a loon. He obsessed over his mother and submitted to her control to the point where his visions of her ghost still guided him. King was a mystic, who engaged in seances and table-rapping to communicate with such "advisors" as his mother, Wilfrid Laurier, FDR, and other sympathetic spectres. If only people knew what was running through his mind every time he glanced at a clock, or took his dog for a walk... A very revealing book about a very mysterious man.