Keating: A Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Few figures in Australian political life have commanded the stage with the same ferocious intelligence and visionary ambition as Paul Keating, and Edna Carew's Keating: A Biography presents the definitive portrait of the man who reshaped a nation. From his working-class roots in Bankstown, Sydney, to his ascent through the ranks of the Australian Labor Party, this biography chronicles the remarkable journey of a self-made politician who became Federal Treasurer and ultimately Prime Minister, steering Australia through one of its most turbulent and transformative economic eras. Carew details the bold financial reforms — the floating of the Australian dollar, the deregulation of the banking sector, and the dismantling of protectionist trade barriers — that earned Keating both fierce admirers and bitter enemies in equal measure. Written with the authority of a journalist who observed Keating's career at close quarters, the biography illuminates the paradoxes at the heart of its subject: a man of cultivated aesthetic sensibilities and volcanic political temper, whose conviction that Australia's destiny lay in Asia reshaped the nation's foreign policy identity. Carew's sharp, unflinching prose captures the contradictions of a leader who could be simultaneously visionary and vindictive, poetic and pugilistic. For anyone seeking to understand the forces that forged modern Australia, this account leaves an unanswered question hanging in the air — how different might the nation look had Keating's grand ambitions been left entirely unchecked?
Author: Edna Carew
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Few figures in Australian political life have commanded the stage with the same ferocious intelligence and visionary ambition as Paul Keating, and Edna Carew's Keating: A Biography presents the definitive portrait of the man who reshaped a nation. From his working-class roots in Bankstown, Sydney, to his ascent through the ranks of the Australian Labor Party, this biography chronicles the remarkable journey of a self-made politician who became Federal Treasurer and ultimately Prime Minister, steering Australia through one of its most turbulent and transformative economic eras. Carew details the bold financial reforms — the floating of the Australian dollar, the deregulation of the banking sector, and the dismantling of protectionist trade barriers — that earned Keating both fierce admirers and bitter enemies in equal measure. Written with the authority of a journalist who observed Keating's career at close quarters, the biography illuminates the paradoxes at the heart of its subject: a man of cultivated aesthetic sensibilities and volcanic political temper, whose conviction that Australia's destiny lay in Asia reshaped the nation's foreign policy identity. Carew's sharp, unflinching prose captures the contradictions of a leader who could be simultaneously visionary and vindictive, poetic and pugilistic. For anyone seeking to understand the forces that forged modern Australia, this account leaves an unanswered question hanging in the air — how different might the nation look had Keating's grand ambitions been left entirely unchecked?