A Figure of Speech: A Political Memoir Tapa dura - 2005

Brisbane, John Wiley & Sons, 2005 [1st edition, 1st impression]; 160 x 240 mm, xii, 307 pp, Hardcover. Condition: Like New, Dust Jacket Condition Like New. Will be shipped in a custom protective book box, and postal tracking information will be supplied. ""Gough Whitlam had once described my writing as 'too dithvrambic' as against his own 'too inspissated' style. He added. 'Comrade. we complement each other'. I accepted the compliment, even after consulting the dictionary to find that inspissated is 'dry, dense in detail' and dithyrambic is 'wild, uncontrolled, related to bacchanalian dances'. ""My parents belonged firmly to that section of the Australian middle class who kept their jobs throughout the Depression but somehow blamed it all on the unions . they identified themselves with Menzies' ""forgotten people"" and triumphed with him in 1949. I come from the same stable as John Winston Howard 'Like the invasion of Iraq forty vears later, Australia's war in Vietnam began with lies. As with Iraq,… Leer más

Brisbane, Milton: John Wiley & Sons, 2005. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), black & white photos centre spread, endpaper drawings, minor edgewear, autograph (author's written name title page), owner's written name. 307 pp. This memoir by Graham Freudenberg follows a journey from deeply conservative beginnings through a lifelong career at the highest level of Australian Labor politics as speechwriter to Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke, and NSW premiers Neville Wran, Barrie Unsworth and Bob Carr. This book captures the drama of Australian politics from the inside.