Incorrigible Optimist. A Political Memoir

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Publisher Place: Carlton
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 402 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A colourful and central figure in Australian politics for two decades-described by Bob Hawke as having the most acute mind of any of his ministers-Gareth Evans has also been applauded worldwide for his contributions, both as Foreign Minister and in later international roles, to conflict resolution, genocide prevention and curbing weapons of mass destruction.In this sometimes moving, often entertaining, and always lucid memoir Evans looks back over the highs and lows of his public life as a student activist, civil libertarian, law reformer, industry minister, international policymaker, educator and politician. He explains why it is that, despite multiple disappointments, he continues to believe that a safer, saner and more decent world is achievable, and why, for all its frustrations, politics remains an indispensable profession not only for megalomaniacs but idealists.

ISBN: 9780522866445