Recollections Of A Bleeding Heart

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Vintage
Publisher Place: Milsons Point
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: Reprint

Description: 772 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Since its publication in March 2002, RECOLLECTIONS OF A BLEEDING HEART has sold over 50,000 copies and won a string of prestigious awards including The Age Book of the Year and Best Non-fiction book, The Courier-Mail Book of the Year and the National Biography Award. Political commentator aand himself a Keating biographer aMichael Gordon calls the book 'a masterpiece...simply the best inside account of life, politics and combat inside the highest office of the land ever written.' Don Watson was employed as Keating's speechwriter in 1992, less than a month after Keating took the country's top job. Though trained in history rather than economics and generally regarded as a 'bleeding heart liberal', Watson became a close advisor and friend to the Prime Minister. Based on notes Watson kept during the four turbulent and exhausting years he spent working in the Prime Minister's Office, RECOLLECTIONS OF A BLEEDING HEART is a political memoir told from the inside; Keating himself says it is 'like the black box recorder in a plane'. The book is a unique reflection on modern Australian politics, but Watson offers much more than political analysis. With empathy and insight, he provide

ISBN: 9781740512145