Whitlam PM Tapa dura - 1973

Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1973 [1st edition]; 120 x 190 mm, 246 pp. Hard Cover - VG, with a very slight lean and pages age-toned as expected, in a VG dustwrapper with a [previous owner?] surname in light pen on the front. Now scarce in any edition, this is overall a pristine copy of this landmark biography in the original hard cover first edition. From the dustwrapper: ""Mr Oakes, a journalist with the Melbourne Sun has made himself somewhat of an authority on this curious man, the Prime Minister."" B. M. Snedden. A man of unshakeable principle who walks with destiny or an erudite opportunist ? The greatest Prime Minister since Curtin or an impractical visionary? In this, the first comprehensive biography of Whitlam, journalist and author Laurie Oakes examines the background and career of the man who has become Australia's most controversial Prime Minister since Federation; the sensitive, gangling schoolboy with a flair for classical parody - and a total ineptitude in arithmetic; the arrogant,… Leer más