Title The manner of their going : Prime Ministerial exits from Lyne to Abbott / Norman Abjorensen

Published Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, 2015 North Melbourne, Victoria : Australian Scholarly, 2015 ©2015

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	352.230994 Abj/Mot		AVAILABLE

Description vii, 245 pages ; 24 cm Contents The Prime Minister Who Never Was: Sir William Lyne and the Policies of Federation -- Edmund Barron: Tobias Hamlet and the Long Goodbye -- Watson and Reid: At Alfred's Pleasure: Chris Watson: In his beginning his end: George Reid: 'At the mercy of a man who did not like him' -- The Strange Political Death of Alfred Deakin -- Joseph Cook and the Politics of Confrontation: 'There is nothing to say' -- Andrew Fisher: 'They can all go to hell' -- The Assassination of Billy Hughes -- Stanley Bruce: Into the banishment -- The Tragedy of Jimmy Scullin: 'It nearly killed me' -- Death in Office: Joseph Lyons: 'I should never have left Tasmania'; John Curtin: 'Too tired to live': Harold Holt: 'Where is he? -- Interregnum: Earle Page; 'Notorious renure of office': Arthur Fadden: 'A sigh of relief'; Frank Forde: 'It's not an easy job'; John mcEwan: Stopping Billy -- Robert Menzies: I'll lie down and bleed for a while -- The People's Judgment: Exit at the Ballot Box: Ben Chifley: 'I can do with a rest'; William McMahon: 'Stop laughing at Billy'; Malcolm Fraser: The weight of time; Paul Keating: 'Thanks for the ride'; John Howard: From obsession to defeat -- Some may Call it Treachery: John Gorton: Triumph of the 'termites': Gough Whitlam: Stealth, deception, betrayal; Bob Hawke: 'He had to go...he wasn't going to win' -- Labor's MAD Wards; Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and the Politics of Mutually Assured Destruction -- Tony Abbott and the Limits of Ambition -- Epilogue; The Afterlife of Prime Ministers -- Appendix 'Us, writ large': review of Mungo MacCallum's The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely; Australia's Prime Ministers Summary 'Norman Abjorensen doesn't shy from judgement in this meticulously researched, detailed and illuminating book on the last days of our leading politicians. Only one Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, has ever voluntarily departed politics for a graceful retirement, while three died in office; the remaining twenty-three were all forced from office in one way or another. Here, armed with the forensic skill of a surgeon and the insight of an expert observer, Dr Abjorensen picks apart the fatal flaws that contributed to their failure.' (Nicholas Stuart, author of Rudd's Way: November 2007-June 2010) Analysis Australian Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-239) and index Subject Abbott, Tony, 1957- Barton, Edmund, Sir, 1849-1920 Bruce, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Viscount, 1883-1967 Chifley, J. B. (Joseph Benedict), 1885-1951. Cook, Joseph, Sir, 1860-1946 Cook, Joseph, Sir, 1860-1947 Curtin, John, 1885-1945 Deakin, Alfred, 1856-1919. Bruce of Melbourne, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Viscount, 1883-1967. Fadden, Arthur (Arthur William), Sir, 1894-1973 Fadden, Arthur, 1895-1973. Fisher, Andrew, 1862-1928. Ford, Frank. Fraser, Malcolm, 1930-2015. Gorton, John, Sir, 1911-2002 Gorton, John, 1911-2002. Hawke, Bob, 1929- Holt, Harold, 1908-1967 Howard, John, 1939- Keating, Paul, 1944- Hughes, William Morris, 1864-1952. Lyne, William J. (William John), Sir, 1844-1913 Lyons, Joseph Aloysius, 1879-1939. Forde, Francis Michael (Frank) Forde, 1890-1983 McMahon, William, 1908-1988. Menzies, Robert, 1894-1978. Forde, Francis Michael, 1890-1983 McEwen, John, 1900-1980. Page, Earle, Sir, 1880-1961 Page, Earle, 1880-1961. Holt, Harold Edward, 1908-1967. Reid, G. H. (George Houstoun), 1845-1918. Rudd, Kevin, 1957- Scullin, James Henry, 1876-1953. Gillard, Julia. Reid, G. H. (George Houstoun), Sir, 1845-1918 Watson, John Christian, 1867-1941. Whitlam, Gough, 1916-2014. Politicians -- Australia. Prime ministers -- Australia -- Biography. Prime ministers -- Australia. SUBJECT Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Australia -- Politics and government -- 1901-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009599 Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009600 Australia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 Genre/Form Biographies. LC no. 2015513827 ISBN 1925333213 9781925333213

Other Titles Prime ministerial exits from Lyne to Abbott

  Permalink