Bob Hawke : demons and destiny : the definitive biography
Bramston, Troy2022
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Place reservation for Bob Hawke : demons and destiny : the definitive biographyThis unprecedented biography of Hawke includes an exclusive series of interviews with him - the last that he gave - as well as unfiltered access to his extensive trove of personal papers. It features new interviews with more than 100 people who knew and worked with Hawke, including his family and friends; political and union colleagues, and rivals; advisers and public servants; and journalists; along with international contemporaries of Hawke such as George H.W. Bush, John Major, Brian Mulroney, James Baker and George Shultz. It also brings together an extraordinary array of never-before-seen archival documents- family diaries, notes, letters and scrapbooks; school and university reports; cabinet, departmental and vice-regal papers; party strategy documents, polling and caucus minutes; and secret correspondence and meeting records between Hawke and other Cold War leaders. This book is about the real Hawke, chronicling the stunning triumphs and shocking failures, a life riddled with huge flaws and great virtues marked by redemption and reinvention, which changed Australia and shaped the world. Revelatory and compelling, it will shock and surprise those who think they know the story of the Australia's most popular prime minister.
Main title:
Bob Hawke : demons and destiny : the definitive biography / Troy Bramston.
Author:
Bramston, Troy, author
Imprint:
[Southbank VIC] : Viking, 2022.©2022
Collation:
xxvii, 676 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780143788096 (hardback)
Dewey class:
994.064092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
466703
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