The Many Lives of William Lyon Mackenzie King

Download or read book The Many Lives of William Lyon Mackenzie King written by Barry Cahill and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.