Hawke. The Definitive Biography

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Angus And Robertson
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1979
Edition: First Edition

Description: 262 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. To Millions Of Australians, Robert James Lee Hawke Is A Pop Star Seen Weekly, If Not Nightly, On The TV Screen. They Want To Feel His Presence, Shake His Hand And Confide Their Problems To Him.

Publishers Description: This biography takes Hawke up to the torrid ACTU congress of 1979, the trade union battle over uranium mining and the prominent focus on Hawke's future and the complicated steps aligning his political ambitions. Hurst, a prominent journalist including as Melbourne editor of The Australian and also Nation Review, provides a telling account of Hawke's emotional and psycholog This biography takes Hawke up to the torrid ACTU congress of 1979, the trade union battle over uranium mining and the prominent focus on Hawke's future and the complicated steps aligning his political ambitions. Hurst, a prominent journalist including as Melbourne editor of The Australian and also Nation Review, provides a telling account of Hawke's emotional and psychological stresses in his childhood and youth plus his 21 years with the ACTU and his driven nature - his public life "lived with a furious intensity". ...more

ISBN: 0207140502