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Carregando... The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministersde Mungo MacCallum
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A short book with a chapter for each of the Prime Ministers of Australia. Less space is devoted to the earlier prime ministers than to the latter - where the author goes into a bit too much detail. ( ) Mungo MacCallum has been writing on Australian politics with his sharp wit for generations now so I am thankful that he has taken the time to write precises on each of what was then the twenty-seven Prime Ministers of Australia (the 2012 publication means we only get 1/2 of the stories of Rudd and Gillard and, thankfully for some readers no doubt, none of Abbott). MacCullum doesn't dish too much dirt on the PMs and in the end there's not much I didn't already know, but he writes in such an entertaining way that I breezed through "The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely" in a couple of sittings. And while MacCullum has his personal favorites amongst the 27, it's only with John Howard that his personal dislike of the subject comes through. If, for whatever reason, you want to become more au fait with the characters that at one stage or another held Australia's top job, this is as good a start as any. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Since 1901, thirty different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing. Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office days before Wall Street crashed into the Great Depression. John Curtin faced the ultimate challenge of wartime leadership. John Gorton, Gough Whitlam and Paul Keating each shook up their parties' policies so vigorously that none lasted much longer than a single term. Harold Holt spent three decades in parliament, only to disappear while swimming off the coast of Victoria two years into his first term. John Howard's 'triple bypass' is the stuff of legend. Julia Gillard overthrew Kevin Rudd and Kevin Rudd overthrew Julia Gillard, thus paving the way for Tony Abbott, who was ousted by Malcolm Turnbull - until he too was toppled, this time by Scott Morrison. But is Australia's thirty-first prime minister just around the corner? With characteristic wit and expert knowledge, Mungo MacCallum brings the nation's leaders to life in this fully up-to-date new edition of a classic book. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)994.0099History and Geography Oceania and elsewhere AustraliaClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
É você?Torne-se um autor do LibraryThing. Penguin Australia2 edições deste livro foram publicadas por Penguin Australia. Edições: 1863955534, 1863955879 |