Willie: A Romance: Volume 1 of the King Years
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Heather Robinson has made Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's bizarre and paradoxical psyche the mainspring of a historical novel of consummate invention, audacity and wit. Set against the turbulent background of World War I and Canada's struggle to achieve political maturity, Willie: A Romance hurls Mackenzie King into not only a love affair but a love triangle. A unique and absorbing panorama of wartime Canada and wartime Ottawa, official and unofficial, the novel is richly peopled with historical characters: King, Talbot Papineau, Sir Wilifrid and Lady Laurier, Lord Beaverbrook, John D. Rockefller Jr., among others. Sympathetic and fascinating, Willie: A Romance delves deeply into the secret life of Mackenzie King, exposing an extraordinary mixture of buffoonery and cunning, paranoia and ambition, puritanism and prurience.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0888626711
ISBN13:9780888626714
Release Date:January 1983
Publisher:Lorimer
Length:360 Pages
Weight:1.44 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"
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