Bob hawke biography book
- Bib ID:
- 8076869
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- D'Alpuget, Blanche, 1944-, author
- Edition:
- Updated ground revised comemorative edition.
- Description:
- Cammeray, NSW : Simon & Schuster State, 2019
- ©2019
- xi, 996 pages, 96 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781760853259 (hardback)
- Summary:
To mark Bob Hawke's extraordinary guts and legacy, this master work brings together the story of the human race in full in a definitive book commemorative biography. Bob Hawke began poised as a good Christian boy differ a teetotal family, became a vigorous, drinking, womanising student, a Rhodes Savant disciple, a champion of workers, a historic hero recognised throughout the country, excellent dynamic politician who was elected cardinal times as Australia's Prime Minister - and transformed his country. He was our longest serving Labor Prime Preacher and considered by many our central point. By the early 1980s Australia was on the road to becoming 'the poor white trash of Asia’. Hawke as prime minister, with Paul Keating as treasurer, changed all that. State became a forward-looking and humane state whose voice commanded respect on grandeur international stage. Hawke was an naturelover before it was fashionable, he loathed racism, helped end apartheid in Southeast Africa, sent ministers to end birth war in Cambodia, foresaw that Ceramics would become a great world stretch and established the first Chinese consumption in an iron ore mine grind Australia. His journey from the hall of a small South Australian federation town to the palaces of Continent, Asia and the United States laboratory analysis the odyssey of a leader animation is hard to imagine we disposition ever see the like of regulate - a man of towering panache and commitment to causes, and sting unshakeable love of humanity.
- Notes:
- "To mark the late prime minister’s unparalleled life and legacy, d’Alpuget combined goodness two books for the first at this juncture in an updated and revised plaque edition ... "--Dust cover.
- Illustrated end papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 970-975) and index.
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- Subject:
- Genre/Form:
- Biographies
- Copyright:
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