Carpenter To Cabinet: Thirty-Seven Years Of Parliament
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
From the carpenter's bench to the corridors of power in Canberra, Carpenter to Cabinet: Thirty-Seven Years of Parliament is a remarkable political memoir chronicling the extraordinary life of one of Australia's most enduring statesmen. Sir George Foster Pearce, a founding senator of the Australian Commonwealth and a dominant figure in federal politics for nearly four decades, recounts his journey from working-class origins to the highest offices of government, offering an intimate and authoritative account of the nation's formative political era. Written with the candour and conviction of a man who shaped Australian policy across Labor and Nationalist governments alike, this memoir presents a vivid panorama of the Commonwealth's early parliamentary history, touching on issues of defence, federation, and national identity. With a foreword by Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, the book carries the weight of two giants of Australian public life between its covers. Illustrated with 31 photographs, it stands as an indispensable primary source for anyone seeking to understand how Australia's democratic institutions were forged — and leaves the reader wondering just how much of the nation's character was shaped by men who built it with their hands before they built it with their words.
Author: Sir George Foster Pearce
Format: Hardback
Published: 1951, Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
From the carpenter's bench to the corridors of power in Canberra, Carpenter to Cabinet: Thirty-Seven Years of Parliament is a remarkable political memoir chronicling the extraordinary life of one of Australia's most enduring statesmen. Sir George Foster Pearce, a founding senator of the Australian Commonwealth and a dominant figure in federal politics for nearly four decades, recounts his journey from working-class origins to the highest offices of government, offering an intimate and authoritative account of the nation's formative political era. Written with the candour and conviction of a man who shaped Australian policy across Labor and Nationalist governments alike, this memoir presents a vivid panorama of the Commonwealth's early parliamentary history, touching on issues of defence, federation, and national identity. With a foreword by Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, the book carries the weight of two giants of Australian public life between its covers. Illustrated with 31 photographs, it stands as an indispensable primary source for anyone seeking to understand how Australia's democratic institutions were forged — and leaves the reader wondering just how much of the nation's character was shaped by men who built it with their hands before they built it with their words.