Review of Canada Split: A Flush of Tories & Rexy!

Canada Split: A Flush of Tories & Rexy!

Rexy! is not only as topical as the debate on the constitution but it is a great deal wittier. Here is Canadian history rendered with tongue tucked firmly in cheek without, however, demeaning [Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie] King himself. King is a cunning, indeed superb, politician as well as a rare and fascinating eccentric. The grandson of the rebel William Lyon Mackenzie, he was in thrall to history. He was also a spiritualist who conducted seances in his Ottawa home and a lifelong bachelor who bought sex from prostitutes. And as Stratton makes clear, he was also as vain as a turkeycock, a little man fretting to strut on the world stage denied him by his Quebec constituency.


The Toronto Star

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Canada Split: A Flush of Tories & Rexy!

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