Recollections Of A Bleeding Heart. Paul Keating PM

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Random House P/L
Publisher Place: Milsons Point
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: Reprint

Description: 756 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. Based On Notes He Kept Through The Four Turbulent Years He Spent With Keating, This Is A Frank And Revealing And Engrossing Portrait Of This Brilliant And Perplexing Man, A Unique Reflection On Modern Politics, Government And Australia Itself.

Publishers Description: If he had never become Prime Minister Paul Keatings place in Australian history would still have been assured. He was the Treasurer who deregulated the economy; the weaver of Labors modern story; its heavy weapon in the parliament. He was also the great enigma - a self-educated boy from Sydneys working class and a defining element of the head-kicking Labor right who loved Paris, Mahler and Second Empire clocks. Paul Keating did become Prime Minister. In December 1991 he wrested it from Bob Hawke and the bruises from that struggle were part of the baggage he brought to the job: the other parts included the worst recession in 60 years and an electorate determined to make him pay for it. Keating defied the odds and won the 1993 election, and in his four years as Prime Minister set Australia on a new course - towards engagement with Asia, a republic, reconciliation, a social democracy built on a modern export-based economy and sophisticated public systems of education and training, health and social security. Widely regarded as a quintessential economic rationalist, Keatings record clearly shows that his vision was infinitely broader and more complex. Don Watson was employed as Keatings speechwriter. Though a bleeding heart liberal trained in history rather than economics, he became an advisor and friend to Keating. RECOLLECTIONS OF A BLEEDING HEART - based on notes Watson kept through the four turbulent and exhausting years of Keatings Prime Ministership - is a frank, sympathetic and engrossing portrait of this brilliant and perplexing man, and a unique reflection on modern politics.

ISBN: 9780091835170