Political lives, Australian prime ministers and their biographers, Chris Wallace
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Political lives, Australian prime ministers and their biographers, Chris Wallace
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
collective biography
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Political lives
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Chris Wallace
Sub title
Australian prime ministers and their biographers
Summary
Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics. In 2011, Chris Wallace was writing a biography of Julia Gillard. After seeing the unparalleled onslaught from the Abbott opposition, she cancelled her contract and repaid her advance with the awareness of how hard the biography could hit. Political Lives is a result of that fraught experience. In it Wallace reflects on the roles and motives of biographers and their biographies in the 20th century. To discover who wrote biographies, and why, Wallace interviewed every living 20th century prime minister and their biographer, from Menzies to Hawke, Whitlam to Keating. The result is an intimate history of Australian national politics
Target audience
adult
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