$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking / ISBN:9780670071357)
Kevin Rudd: The Biography
When Kevin Rudd became Labor leader in December 2006, many Australians had never heard of him. A few months later, his presence has galvanized the Labor party into an effective opposition, and he appears on the on the brink of becoming the leader of this country. But who is Kevin Rudd? What is his experience, both political and personal? What sort of man is he? What role does his religion play in his life? How has his wife's multimillion-dollar business influenced him? In short, what sort of Prime Minister might he make?
In this biography of Rudd, author, journalist and former Prime Ministerial press secretary Robert Macklin analyses the public and private record, including Rudd's time as a diplomat in China and his role in Wayne Goss's Queensland Government. Macklin has conducted exclusive interviews with Rudd's former employers and colleagues to reveal the man away from the spotlight. And he has had full access to the Rudd family, and to Rudd himself, who talks about the enduring legacy of his childhood, through the tragedy of his early teens to the moment when he decided 'to get determined'.
This is a human story as much as a political one - sometimes funny, sometimes touching - written with great pace and drama. It is a timely book full of insights into the man who would be Prime Minister.
Robert Macklin was born in Brisbane and after a stint jackarooing in Western Queensland began his journalistic career at the Courier-Mail. He worked in the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery for The Age and in 1967 joined Sir John McEwen as Press Secretary. Shortly afterward Prime Minister Harold Holt drowned and McEwen became Prime Minister. Macklin later joined The Canberra Times where he was associate editor until 2002.
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$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
When Kevin Rudd became Leader of the Opposition in December 2006, dramatically ousting Kim Beazley, few Australians knew who he was. Eleven months later - and even more dramatically - he ousted John Howard to become Prim... More »
Kevin Rudd: The Biography
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
When Kevin Rudd became Labor leader in December 2006, many Australians had never heard of him. A few months later, his presence has galvanized the Labor party into an effective opposition, and he appears on the on the br... More »
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