C. P. Stacey
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When Canada was governed by a loon... 5 out of 5 stars.
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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.
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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 politician who was Canada's prime minister for 21 years. But in his private world, King was a man of strange and obsessive drives. In his diaries, he confessed his uncontrollable passions, his "strollings" at night, and the anguish and guilt that followed. He described his relationship with his women friends and with his deceased mother, and his communications with the spirit world.
In this book, prominent Canadian historian C. P. Stacey reveals--for the first time--the incredible story of the private life of Mackenzie King.
