LEADER 04594nam 2200697 450 001 9910812461203321 005 20230515054943.0 010 $a1-4426-3371-9 010 $a1-4426-3203-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442632035 035 $a(CKB)3710000000421834 035 $a(EBL)3432138 035 $a(OCoLC)929153438 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001541228 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11936771 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001541228 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11534924 035 $a(PQKB)10572059 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669380 035 $a(CEL)449977 035 $a(OCoLC)914232993 035 $a(CaBNVSL)thg00930803 035 $a(DE-B1597)465770 035 $a(OCoLC)979747352 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442632035 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4669380 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11255919 035 $a(OCoLC)958557686 035 $a(OCoLC)1378465134 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107173 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000421834 100 $a20160920h19811981 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe young Vincent Massey /$fClaude Bissell 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1981. 210 4$dİ1981 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4426-5195-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tA Chronology of the Young Vincent Massey -- $tIllustrations -- $t1. The Family Inheritance -- $t2. Undergraduate -- $t3. Hart House -- $t4. The Emergence of the Public Man -- $t5. The Lure of Politics -- $t6. The American Years -- $t7. The Squire of Batterwood -- $t8. A Young Maecenas -- $t9. The Return to Politics -- $tA Note on Sources -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aFor Vincent Massey, youth was a period of protest and emerging public fame. He broke with his strong family traditions of Methodist piety and American ties. He became known as a patron of the arts, innovator, politician, and diplomat.This volume begins with his prosperous Victorian childhood and carries through days as a student and wartime officer. He plans Hart House, which becomes a cultural centre. Promised a cabinet post, he runs for Parliament and is defeated. Instead, he is sent to Washington as Canada?s first minister there, and achieves brilliant success. He is prominent in educational circles; he helps to reorganize the Liberal party, presses for progressive policies, and flirts with the idea of replacing Mackenzie King.The book ends in 1935 as he sails to London as his country?s high commissioner. He considers it his first major job. In between he writes poetry?usually light, sometimes venom-tipped. He acts, and directs plays. He sponsors a string quartet of international stature. He marries Alice Parkin, a handsome woman of strong convictions, and with her builds a country home near Port Hope, Ontario. He becomes a leading collector of modern Canadian art, and is involved with the painter David Milne. The book is as well a history of the people and ideas which influenced the young Massey?family, teachers, friends, associates. One chapter is given to his relations with Mackenzie King?each of them convinced of his own rightness but separated by fundamental differences, loud in protestations of friendship but nourishing an inner contempt for one another.Claude Bissell has built this complex and absorbing portrait from the unpublished papers of Vincent Massey and members of his circle, diaries of King and other politicians, memories of artists and musicians.He writes with vigour and elegance, "ing extensively from private records and letters, coining epigrams of his own. His portrait is sympathetic but not uncritical, with plenty of scope for the reader to make his own judgements.This is the first of two volumes about one of Canada?s best known and least understood figures?statesman, cultural advocate, patron, family man, and first native governor-general. 606 $aStatesmen$zCanada$vBiography 607 $aCanada$2fast 608 $aBiographies. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aStatesmen 676 $a971.06/092/4 700 $aBissell$b Claude Thomas$f1916-2000,$0682635 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812461203321 996 $aThe young Vincent Massey$94073737 997 $aUNINA