If you're taking part in contemporary politics, you had better board up your closet to prevent any skeletons from being revealed. It wasn't necessarily so 100 years ago. The private lives of politicians, were for the most part, kept private, even by publicity-seeking media outlets. If that weren't the case, then the longest serving Canadian prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, would surely have been ridiculed and harassed to death. His voluminous amount of diaries and personal files exposed not just the man's eccentricities but certain practices like his belief that he could communicate with the dead. Even so, King is considered at the top of the list of successful and shrewd Canadian politicians. Listen as award winning author and historian Allan Levine discusses King's curious life with journalist Ernest Granson.