Australian Prime Ministers

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: New Holland
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: Reprint

Description: 528 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.

Publishers Description: Larrikins or patricians, socialists or silvertails - in the century following Federation, Australias prime ministers were as diverse as the nation they served. Some came from backgrounds of rural or urban poverty and were largely self-educated, looking to the ballot box as a tool of social justice; some were drawn to politics as their destiny; still others regarded high office as no more than their due. One or two demonstrated that, as well as being the art of the possible, politics can also be the art of the unlikely.In this lively and authoritative book, 21 historians, biographers and political analysts discuss and profile the men who have attained Australias highest public office and the forces that shaped them. In doing so, Australian Prime Ministers obliquely considers the nature of Australian democratic and political power.This revised edition of Australian Prime Ministers includes: a post-script for the late Sir John Gorton, the conclusion of John Howards term and Kevin Rudd, the first prime minister elected in the second century following federation.

ISBN: 9781741107272