Bob Hawke : demons and destiny : the definitive biography / Troy Bramston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bramston, Troy, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politicians--Australia--Biography.

Politicians.

Prime ministers--Australia--Biography.

Prime ministers.

Labor unions--Australia--Officials and employees--Biography.

Labor unions.

Labor unions--Officials and employees.

Politics and government.

Hawke, Bob, 1929-2019.

Hawke, Bob.

Australian Labor Party--History--20th century.

Australian Labor Party.

Australia--Politics and government--20th century.

Australia.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 676 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Hawthorn, VIC] : Viking Australia, 2022.

Summary:

"The definitive full-life biography of Australia's 23rd prime minister; the only one that Hawke cooperated with after exiting the prime ministership. This unprecedented biography of Hawke includes an exclusive series of interviews with him, the last that he gave, as well as unfiltered access to his extensive trove of personal papers. It features new interviews with more than 100 people who knew and worked with Hawke, including his family and friends; political and union colleagues, and rivals; advisers and public servants; and journalists; along with international contemporaries of Hawke such as George H.W. Bush, John Major, Brian Mulroney, James Baker and George Shultz. It also brings together an extraordinary array of never-before-seen archival documents - family diaries, notes, letters and scrapbooks; school and university reports; cabinet, departmental and vice-regal papers; party strategy documents, polling and caucus minutes; and secret correspondence and meeting records between Hawke and other Cold War leaders. Troy Bramston tells the remarkable story of Hawke's upbringing and education, the people and events that shaped him, his rise through the union movement, his complex personality and personal life marked by womanising and the demon drink, his nine-year government from 1983 to 1991, plus his post-prime ministerial life and legacy. This book is about the real Hawke, chronicling the stunning triumphs and shocking failures, a life riddled with huge flaws and great virtues marked by redemption and reinvention, which changed Australia and shaped the world. Revelatory and compelling, it will shock and surprise those who think they know the story of Australia's most popular prime minister"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I DESTINY: 1929

1958

1. Providence

2. Son of the Manse

3. Rogue Scholar

4. Hazel

5. Broader Horizons

6. Academic Interlude

pt. II AMBITION: 1958

1983

7. Advocate

8. Rising Star

9. Mr President

10. The Second-Most Powerful Man in Australia

11. Bob and Gough

12. All the World's a Stage

13. Demons and Decisions

14. Enter the Biographer

15. The Coming of the Messiah

16. Bob and Bill

17. Bringing Australia Together

pt. III POWER: 1983

1991

18. Taking Power

19. Economic Realities

20. From Messiah to Mortal

21. Hawke Abroad

22. Economic Crises

23. Let's Stick Together

24. Bob and Paul

25. In Bed with Bob

26. Cold War Conciliator

27. Fourth Term

28. The View from Yarralumla

29. Hawke at War

30. Keating Strikes

31. End of Days

pt. IV STATESMAN: 1991

2019

32. Hawke in Hell

33. The Many Lives of Bob Hawke

34. The Golden Bowl Is Broken.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780143788096

0143788094

OCLC:

1286146433

Publisher Number:

99991135294