The Incredible Canadian: A Candid Portrait of MacKenzie King

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-543890-1
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 143 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 374 g

Reihe: Wynford Books

From Canada's greatest political journalist comes the astonishing story of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. As the original edition described this award-winning book:

"He appeared to the public a drab little man, round of face and body, who spoke in banalities. Behind this façade lay the skill of a political genius and a mind sharp enough to confound all his contemporaries. Radical, reformer, scholar, philosopher, historian, spiritualist, Mackenzie King was the Incredible Canadian. He grasped the reins of a leaderless party, brought it to power and then clung to the Prime Minister's office longer than any man in the history of the British Commonwealth.
Few people have understood the convolutions of Mackenzie King's mind, his complexity, his contradictions, his idealism and devotion to Canada as does Bruce Hutchison. The Incredible Canadian has all the elements of thrilling fiction. It refutes for all time the notion that Canadian history is dull or
includes no colourful figures. This is more than a biography of Mackenzie King. Rather it is the engrossing story of the times which created the man and how the man shaped the times to suit his purposes."

The Incredible Canadian was awarded the Governor General's Award for creative nonfiction. The Wynford edition includes a new introduction by Vaughn Palmer, one of Canada's foremost political journalists and a winner of the Bruce Hutchison Award. Palmer's introduction puts both the book and Hutchison's career in historical context for modern readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hutchison, Bruce

Palmer, Vaughn

Weitere Mitwirkende

Palmer, Vaughn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Vaughn Palmer: Introduction to the Wynford Edition
Foreword
1: The Man and the Land
2: The Rebel's Grandson
3: The Apprentice Rebel
4: Flood Tide and Ebb
5: The Rebel in Exile
6: The First Hurdle
7: The Battle is Joined
8: The Prairie Fire
9: The New Team
10: The Royal Jelly
11: Calm before Storm
12: The Fatal Blunder
13: Low Tide
14: The Great Assize
15: The Brief Candle
16: On the Watershed
17: A Spell of Blindness
18: The Valley of Humiliation
19: Out of the Depths
20: Lunge to the Left
21: The Man of Business
22: The Pugilist and the Physician
23: Midsummer Madness
24: Under the Shadow
25: The Simple Peasant
26: The Bridge Builders
27: The Shadows Lengthen
28: The Awakening
29: Victory at Home
30: The Old Actor
31: The Black Springtime
32: A Grand Sunday in April
33: The Commander-in-Chief
34: The Crisis, First Stage
35: Back to Politics
36: The Glory and the Dream
37: The Crisis, Second Phase
38: The Executioner
39: The Terrible Secret
40: The Colonel and the General
41: The Last Fight
42: The Wrong World
43: The Dwindling Days
44: The Heir-Apparent
45: The Pilgrim's Return

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Hutchison (1901-1992) was one of Canada's foremost journalists. His career spanned most of the twentieth century, and he was the recipient of many honours, including three Governor General's Awards for his works of nonfiction.