Hawke. The Definitive Biography

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Angus And Robertson
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1980
Edition: Reprint

Description: 262 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Hawke Lived His Public Life With A Furious Intensity As If His Days Were Numbered.

Publishers Description: Hawke lived his public life with a furious intensity as if his days were numbered. Did he fear that he might die prematurely before he had left his imprint firmly embedded in Australian history? How much had that brush with death in a motor cycle accident at the age of seventeen, the recollection of his close friend Lionel Revelman dying in his arms, and the threats to Hawke lived his public life with a furious intensity as if his days were numbered. Did he fear that he might die prematurely before he had left his imprint firmly embedded in Australian history? How much had that brush with death in a motor cycle accident at the age of seventeen, the recollection of his close friend Lionel Revelman dying in his arms, and the threats to kill him affect his attitude to life? Was there enough time? Hawke was in a hurry. There was always another challenge, another peak. Was he afraid of falling from public grace, or of dying, before the ultimate achievement? ...more

ISBN: 0207143072