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1 online resource (446 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Index; Imprint |
| Summary |
BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY NOW BACK IN PRINTBlanche d'Alpuget's classic 1982 biography of Robert J. Hawke remains one of the finest examples of political biography in Australian literature.Robert James Lee Hawke is one of the great men of Australian public life and his story makes compelling reading. Blanche d'Alpuget's sensitivity and psychological insight into Hawke's early years reveal how the son of devout Christian parents was reared to public duty and to the ambition of political leadership.Known throughout his life as a tireless campaigner for workers' rights and a man of wild personal habits, Hawke was a Rhodes Scholar, educated in three universities, before rejecting an academic career to commit himself to the trade union movement. As President of the ACTU from 1970 to 1980 he was a master negotiator and peacemaker in industrial life. He agitated for social and economic reforms, becoming a folk hero and the most popular Australian of his time. While he was President of the Australian Labor Party he sought to heal its wounds after the sacking of the Whitlam government; as the leader of Australia's unions he held back potentially violent industrial action over this most divisive issue. To unionists he was a giant killer; to some employers, a crypto-Communist bent upon their destruction. Hawke: The Early Years is an intimate portrait of a man of extraordinary achievements who struggles to overcome his drinking and philandering in order to rise to the highest office in Australia. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hawke, Bob, 1929-2019.
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Hawke, Bob, 1929-2019. |
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Labor unions -- Officials and employees -- Australia -- Biography.
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Labor unions -- Officials and employees. |
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Australia. |
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Biographies.
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Prime ministers -- Australia -- Biography.
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Prime ministers. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: D'Alpuget, Blanche. Hawke. Melbourne : Melbourne University Publishing, ©2010 9780522858006 |
| ISBN |
0522860915 (electronic book) |
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9780522860917 (electronic book) |
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