Australian political lives : chronicling political careers and administrative histories /
"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. They are not merely chroniclers of...
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Canberra :
ANU E Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- The Art of Australian Political Biography / Geoffrey Bolton
- Political Biography: Its Contribution to Political Science / Tracey Arklay
- Recording Non-Labor Politics Through Biography / Judith Brett
- The 'Life Myth', 'Short Lives' and Dealing with Live Subjects in Political Biography / James Walter
- Public Lives, Private Lives: the Fundamental Dilemma in Political Biography / Nicholas Brown
- Expanding The Repertoire: Theory, Method and Language in Political Biography / R.A.W. Rhodes
- John Curtin: Taking his Childhood Seriously / David Day
- Ministers, Prime Ministers, Mandarins: Politics as a Job / Patrick Weller
- Biography and the Rehabilitation of the Subject: The Case of John Gorton / Ian Hancock
- Aboriginality and Impersonality: Three Australian Indigenous Administrative Memoirs / Tim Rowse
- Writing Political Biography / Rae Wear
- Jessie Street and the New Political Biography / Lenore Coltheart
- Conjuring Fascinating Stories: the Case of Sir Arthur Tange / Peter Edwards
- Anonymous in Life, Anonymous in Death: Memoirs and Biographies of Administrators / John Nethercote
- The Personal Writings of Politicians / Neal Blewett
- Writing Political Autobiographies / John Button
- Political Biographies and Administrative Memoirs: Some Concluding Comments / Philip A. Selth.