{"product_id":"2026200018601-secondhand-the-little-digger-a-biography-of-billy-hughes","title":"The Little Digger: A Biography Of Billy Hughes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was small in stature but titanic in ambition — William Morris Hughes, The Little Digger, served as Australia's seventh Prime Minister and became one of the most ferocious and controversial political figures of the early twentieth century. Donald Horne's biography chronicles the life of this Welsh-born firebrand who dominated Australian politics for decades, steering the nation through the crucible of World War One, championing conscription in the face of fierce opposition, and clawing his way onto the world stage at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 — where he famously refused to be silenced by Woodrow Wilson.\n\nHorne, himself one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals and author of the landmark work The Lucky Country, brings his characteristic sharpness and wit to this portrait of a man as paradoxical as the nation he helped shape. The biography presents Hughes not as a monument, but as a deeply human political animal — vain, tenacious, brilliant, and often infuriating — illuminating the contradictions at the heart of Australian democratic identity. With incisive prose that cuts through myth and hagiography, Horne leaves the reader wondering whether The Little Digger was ultimately a great Australian, or simply a great survivor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50609675632859,"sku":"2026200018601-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/784be349-4b83-4acb-b602-ff1799f8e075.png?v=1791764533","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200018601-secondhand-the-little-digger-a-biography-of-billy-hughes","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}