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xii, 794 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Keating vs Howard |
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Machine generated contents note: The Formative Years, 1944--75 -- The land of the Fibro house -- Bleak times for Labor -- ̀You haven't got a second to lose' -- Rebuilding the soul -- The battle for Blaxland -- The boy from Bankstown goes to Canberra -- Thrills and spills -- The Dismissal -- The Road To Reform, 1976--86 -- Two lost years -- The Hayden years -- The reins of power -- The float -- The Accord comes of age -- The banks -- Out with the old -- Taxing the relationship -- From Treasury To The Lodge, 1986--91 -- The banana republic: no turning back -- The media: policy and payback -- The 1987 election -- Industry: a new world for sure -- Of budgets and bacon -- The winds of recession -- Opera, leadership and the Holy Grail -- The Prime Ministership, 1991--96 -- ̀Old dogs for a hard road' -- Foreign policy -- A republic -- Mabo -- The new march of reform -- The politician & the professor -- In his own right -- A new foe---but reform goes on -- Creative Nation -- |
| Summary |
Paul Keating is widely credited as the chief architect of the most significant period of political and economic reform in Australia's history. Twenty years on, there is still no story from the horse's mouth of how it all came about. No autobiography. No memoir. Yet he is the supreme story-teller of politics...This book of revelations fills the gap. Kerry O'Brien, the consummate interviewer who knew all the players and lived the history, has spent many long hours with Keating, teasing out the stories, testing the memories and the assertions...What emerges is a treasure trove of anecdotes, insights, reflections and occasional admissions from one of the most loved and hated political leaders we have known-a man who either led or was the driving force through thirteen years of Labor government that changed the face of Australia...This is a man who as prime minister personally negotiated the sale of a quarter of the government-owned Qantas in his own office for 665 million, then delighted in watching the buyer's hand shake so much that champagne spilt down his shirtsleeve. He tells of his grave moment of doubt after making one of the riskiest calls of his political life, and how he used an acupuncturist and a television interviewer to seize the day...There are many stories of this kind. The revealing inside stories and even glimpses of insecurities that go with the wielding of power, from a man who had no fear collecting his share of enemies and ended up with more than enough, but whose parliamentary performances from 25 years ago are watched avidly on YouTube today by a generation that was either not yet born or in knee pants when he was at his peak...We'll never get an autobiography or a memoir from Keating. This is as good as it gets-funny, sweeping, angry, imaginative, mischievous, with arrogance, a glimmer of humility and more than a touch of creative madness. Keating unplugged. |
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Australian |
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Record machine-generated from publisher information |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 773-774) and index |
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Keating, Paul, 1944-
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Australian Labor Party -- History -- 20th century.
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Australian Labor Party.
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Politicians -- Australia -- Biography.
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Prime ministers -- Australia -- Biography.
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Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009600
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Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 1976-1990
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Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 1990-2001
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Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476 -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
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Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
1760111627 |
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9781760111625 |
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