Johannes Bjelke-Petersen. The Lord's Premier

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of Queensland Press
Publisher Place: St Lucia
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: First Edition

Description: 249 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Essential Reading For Anyone Interested In Australian Politics,this Biographical Study Explains In Depth,for The First Time, Bjelke-Petersen's Unlikely Elevation To The Premiership And His Ultimate Disgrace Amid Revelations Of Widespread Corruption.

Publishers Description: A saviour to some, reviled by others, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen became the butt of jokes and even assassination attempts. His influence spread well beyond Queensland, and in the mid-1970s he put an unknown french polisher into the Senate to help rub out the Whitlam government.Young Joh had been a loner who worked hard to overcome crippling childhood polio and the poverty of life on his familys farm. Enduring a long apprenticeship as an opposition backbencher, he finally made it to the top, bringing to his old-style autocratic rule a more media-savvy appeal to the electorate.As this long-awaited biography reveals, Joh was as cunning as he was ruthless throughout his forty-year political career. Rae Wear analyses in detail his political psyche, his unique leadership style and the reasons for his electoral support, taking into account his Danish immigrant background and lifelong Christian piety.Essential reading for anyone interested in Australian politics, this biographical study explains in depth, for the first time, Bjelke-Petersens unlikely elevation to the premiership and his ultimate disgrace amid revelations of widespread corruption.

ISBN: 9780702233043