| Description |
xii, 365 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: A journalist is born -- War and postwar -- Capital capers -- Petrovied -- Sexing up Santamaria -- The House of Packer -- A Jungle Book -- Telling Stories -- Faceless men -- At home with the Liberals -- Power struggle -- Jolly John -- In cold blood -- McMahon PM -- Whitlam and I -- After the crash -- From Fraser to Hawke -- A last hurrah |
| Summary |
Arguably Australia's most influential political journalist, Alan 'The Red Fox' Reid covered Australian politics from the 1930s to the 1980s. During his career he was both a chronicler of, and a player in, Australian politics. In this book Ross Fitzgerald and Stephen Holt take us into a Machiavellian behind-the-scenes world of recurrent plots, crises and leadership challenges, and show how it was possible for a skilled journalist to help shape both public perceptions and actual outcomes of political power plays |
| Analysis |
ALP |
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Australia - Politics and government |
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Biography |
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Biography & autobiography (Australia) |
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Canberra |
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History, 1946-1999 |
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Journalists |
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Journalists - Australia - Biography |
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Liberal Party of Australia |
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Packer, Frank |
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Political conditions |
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Political influence |
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Publishing, journalism & media (Australia) |
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Reid, Alan |
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Reid, Alan (Alan Douglas), 1914-1987 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-357) and index |
| Subject |
Reid, Alan, 1914-1987.
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Reid, Alan (Alan Douglas), 1914-1987, author
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Reid, Alan (Alan Douglas), 1914-1987
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Journalists -- Australia -- Biography.
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Mass media -- Political aspects -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006165
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Australia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Holt, Stephen, 1949-
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| LC no. |
2010444779 |
| ISBN |
9781742231327 (hbk.) |
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