Dreaming Too Loud. Reflections On A Race Apart

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: First Edition

Description: 453 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception are a few light age markings on the inside page.

Publishers Description: An incisive and witty collection of Geoffrey Robertsons best writingChristopher Hitchens described Geoffrey Robertson as the greatest living Australian and the satirical magazine Private Eye calls him an Australian who has had a vowel transplant. Just before he was to cross-examine Princess Diana, the London Times complained that he was anti-establishment, republican and Australian - in ascending order of horror. Internationally recognised as one of the worlds leading human rights lawyers and as an intellectual inspiration for the global justice movement, he regularly boomerangs back from leading Europes largest civil liberties practice to the land of his birth and his youth. Just as his Hypotheticals dazzled television audiences, so the speeches and essays collected in this book provoke, disturb and entertain.Here you will find new heroes in our history, such as the schoolteacher who stopped Ned Kellys planned terrorist atrocity at Glenrowan, and the squadron leader who led the few - the airmen who held the Japanese at bay after the fall of Singapore. There are insights into Australian education, the story of wrongly jailed Aboriginal mother Nancy Young, encounters with Vaclav Havel, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Kirby, John Mortimer and Julian Assange, the transcript of a previously banned Hypothetical, reflections on worldwide problems such as torture, terrorism and the Catholic church, and much else besides. With his trademark intelligence, humour and humanity, Robertsons expatriate (but not ex-patriot) vision picks the real winners and losers in the Australian race.

ISBN: 9780857981899