[PDF] The Diary Of William Mackenzie eBook

Author : William Mackenzie
Publisher : Thomas Telford
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780727728302

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The diary that Mackenzie kept during the height of his career has been transcripted, documenting his daily life and detailing his business travels. It presents a record of his life and work affording insights for economic, social and engineering historians.

Author : Frederick Mackenzie
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Page : 458 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 1968
Category : History
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Frederick Mackenzie, son of William Mackenzie and Mary Ann Boursiquot, was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was a commissioned officer in the 23rd Regiment of the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He served in the American Revolution. He commanded the First Exeter Volunteers in 1794. He was secretary of the Royal Military College. He died in Teignmouth, Devon in 1824.

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File Size : 16,97 MB
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The Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie (1874-1950) served as prime minister from 1921-1926, 1926-1930, and 1935-1948. The microfiche edition of "The Mackenzie King Diaries, 1893-1931" was originally published by the University of Toronto Press between 1973-1980. The diaries document the personal and public life of Mackenzie. The Microtext Section of the University of Toronto Libraries provides a summary of the content of the diaries, as well as details about the microfiche format of the diaries housed within its collection. Bibliographic details about the print edition of the diaries are available.

Author : Christopher Dummitt
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0773549390

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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 public’s knowledge and opinion of King's character, offering a compelling look at the changing way Canadians saw themselves and measured the importance of their leaders’ personal lives. Christopher Dummitt relates the strange posthumous tale of King's diary and details the specific decisions of King's literary executors. Along the way we learn about a thief in the public archives, stolen copies of King's diaries being sold on the black market, and an RCMP hunt for a missing diary linked to the search for Russian spies at the highest levels of the Canadian government. Analyzing writing and reporting about King, Dummitt concludes that the increasingly irreverent views of King can be explained by a fundamental historical transformation that occurred in the era in which King's diaries were released, when the rights revolution, Freud, 1960s activism, and investigative journalism were making self-revelation a cultural preoccupation. Presenting extensive archival research in a captivating narrative, Unbuttoned traces the rise of a political culture that privileged the individual as the ultimate source of truth, and made Canadians rethink what they wanted to know about politicians.