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Alan "the Red Fox" Reid : pressman par excellence / Ross Fitzgerald and Stephen Holt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fitzgerald, Ross, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reid, Alan, 1914-1987.
- Reid, Alan.
- Journalists--Australia--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Australia--Politics and government.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (379 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney : New South, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Arguably Australia's most influential political journalist, Alan 'The Red Fox' Reid covered Australian politics from the 1930s to the 1980s.During his career he was both a chronicler of, and player in, Australian politics.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- A journalist is born
- War and postwar
- Capital capers
- Petrovied
- Sexing up Santamaria
- The House of Packer
- A Jungle Book
- Telling stories
- Faceless men
- Power struggle
- In cold blood
- McMahon PM
- Whitlam and I
- After the crash
- From Fraser to Hawke
- A last hurrah
- Notes
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-74223-133-0
- OCLC:
- 701095617
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