Barwick
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few figures in Australian legal and political history provoke as much fascination — and controversy — as Sir Garfield Barwick, the brilliant barrister who rose to become both Attorney-General of Australia and Chief Justice of the High Court. David Marr's authoritative biography chronicles the life of a man whose towering intellect and fierce ambition shaped the nation's legal landscape, while his role in the dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975 cast a long shadow over his legacy and sparked a constitutional crisis that still resonates today. Marr, one of Australia's most distinguished journalists and biographers, brings the same penetrating clarity to this portrait that distinguishes all his work, dissecting the contradictions of a man simultaneously celebrated as a legal genius and condemned as a political actor who overstepped the boundaries of judicial propriety. The result is a biography that presents not just the arc of one remarkable life, but a compelling study of power, principle, and the fragile conventions upon which Australian democracy rests — leaving the reader to wonder where the line between legal authority and political interference truly lies.
Author: David Marr
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few figures in Australian legal and political history provoke as much fascination — and controversy — as Sir Garfield Barwick, the brilliant barrister who rose to become both Attorney-General of Australia and Chief Justice of the High Court. David Marr's authoritative biography chronicles the life of a man whose towering intellect and fierce ambition shaped the nation's legal landscape, while his role in the dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975 cast a long shadow over his legacy and sparked a constitutional crisis that still resonates today. Marr, one of Australia's most distinguished journalists and biographers, brings the same penetrating clarity to this portrait that distinguishes all his work, dissecting the contradictions of a man simultaneously celebrated as a legal genius and condemned as a political actor who overstepped the boundaries of judicial propriety. The result is a biography that presents not just the arc of one remarkable life, but a compelling study of power, principle, and the fragile conventions upon which Australian democracy rests — leaving the reader to wonder where the line between legal authority and political interference truly lies.