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Australian political lives : chronicling political careers and administrative histories / Tracey Arklay, John Nethercote and John Wanna, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- ANZSOG (Series)
- ANZSOG
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politicians--Australia--Biography.
- Politicians.
- Campaign biography--Australia.
- Campaign biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 130 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : ANU E Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This monograph brings together some of the best practitioners of the art and craft of political biography in Australia. They are simultaneously some of our best scholars who, at least in part, have turned their attention to writing Australian political lives.
- Contents:
- Australian Political Lives: Chronicling political careers and administrative histories
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- The Art of Australian Political Biography
- Political Biography: Its Contribution to Political Science
- What is biography?
- Why write biography?
- What does biography add?
- What are the problems of writing biography?
- Choosing a subject
- Dead or live subjects?
- How to read between the lines?
- Recording Non-Labor Politics Through Biography
- The 'Life Myth', 'Short Lives' and Dealing with Live Subjects in Political Biography
- Myths, Training and the Biographer's Approach
- The Problems with Live Subjects
- Public Lives, Private Lives: the Fundamental Dilemma in Political Biography
- Expanding The Repertoire: Theory, Method and Language in Political Biography
- Introduction
- Theory: Beliefs, Traditions, Dilemmas
- Why Beliefs?
- Why Traditions?
- Why Dilemmas?
- Why Narratives?
- Method
- Language
- Conclusion
- John Curtin: Taking his Childhood Seriously
- Ministers, Prime Ministers, Mandarins: Politics as a Job
- Biography and the Rehabilitation of the Subject: The Case of John Gorton
- Aboriginality and Impersonality: Three Australian Indigenous Administrative Memoirs
- Charles Perkins
- Gordon Matthews
- Wayne King
- Concluding Comments
- Writing Political Biography
- Jessie Street and the New Political Biography
- Conjuring Fascinating Stories: the Case of Sir Arthur Tange
- Anonymous in Life, Anonymous in Death: Memoirs and Biographies of Administrators
- The Personal Writings of Politicians
- Writing Political Autobiographies
- Political Biographies and Administrative Memoirs: Some Concluding Comments
- What is 'political biography' - and does the description matter?
- What is a good political biography - and what gets published?.
- Questions of Sources and Methodology
- Who owns the story, and how far should one delve into the private as distinct from public life?
- The problem of gender bias
- Gaps in administrative memoirs
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- OCLC:
- 224938829
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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