Author: LUDWIG, EMIL
Title: Mackenzie King Esquisse D'un Portrait
Description: Montreal: Editions de l'Arbre, 1944. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Card covers show light shelf wear, light soiling, tanning to edges. Previous bookstores imprint on front fly leaf. ; A tight solid book. B&W photographs throughout. Text in French, translated from English by André Champroux. ; Small 8vo 7˝" - 8" tall; 99 pages; "William Lyon Mackenzie King OM CMG PC (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950), commonly known as Mackenzie King, was a Canadian statesman and politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms from 1921–1926, 1926–1930 and 1935–1948. A Liberal, he was the dominant politician in Canada during the interwar period from the 1920s through the 1940s. He is best known for his leadership of Canada throughout the Second World War (1939–1945) when he mobilized Canadian money, supplies and volunteers to support Britain while boosting the economy and maintaining morale on the home front. With a total of 21 years and 154 days in office, he remains the longest-serving prime minister in Canadian history. Trained in law and social work, he was keenly interested in the human condition (as a boy, his motto was "Help those that cannot help themselves"), and played a major role in laying the foundations of the Canadian welfare state." (Wikipedia). Very Good .
Keywords: Canada Politics welfare state Liberal History::Canada Biographies & Memoirs Political Science
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Title: Mackenzie King Esquisse D'un Portrait
Description: Montreal: Editions de l'Arbre, 1944. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Card covers show light shelf wear, light soiling, tanning to edges. Previous bookstores imprint on front fly leaf. ; A tight solid book. B&W photographs throughout. Text in French, translated from English by André Champroux. ; Small 8vo 7˝" - 8" tall; 99 pages; "William Lyon Mackenzie King OM CMG PC (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950), commonly known as Mackenzie King, was a Canadian statesman and politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms from 1921–1926, 1926–1930 and 1935–1948. A Liberal, he was the dominant politician in Canada during the interwar period from the 1920s through the 1940s. He is best known for his leadership of Canada throughout the Second World War (1939–1945) when he mobilized Canadian money, supplies and volunteers to support Britain while boosting the economy and maintaining morale on the home front. With a total of 21 years and 154 days in office, he remains the longest-serving prime minister in Canadian history. Trained in law and social work, he was keenly interested in the human condition (as a boy, his motto was "Help those that cannot help themselves"), and played a major role in laying the foundations of the Canadian welfare state." (Wikipedia). Very Good .
Keywords: Canada Politics welfare state Liberal History::Canada Biographies & Memoirs Political Science
Price: US$ 12.50 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 19838
- Book number: 19838
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