Unbuttoned: A History of MacKenzie King's Secret Life

by Christopher Dummitt

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773548769
• ISBN13: 9780773548763
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.1"