Robert J. Hawke: A Biography: Blanche d'Alpuget (engl.) S.

Comments:

'I admire the author's skill in painting the most elusive of portraits - a living politician. One doesn't need to agree with every page to relish the book's sweep and vivacity.'
-Geoffrey Blainey

'A fascinating book. It contains some inside stories that are eye openers, even for someone who has been watching the Labor Party at close quarters for years. It is likely to be an essential key to understanding Australian politics for quite a while.'
-Laurie Oakes

'I could not put it down. Blanche d'Alpuget's book is not only a brilliant warts and all study of a complex, gifted man. It is also an impressive and in some instances a highly revelatory account of the innumerable industrial and political happenings in which Hawke was inextricably involved.'
-Alan Reid

'Blanche d'Alpuget takes as her starting point the extraordinary fascination of the Australian population with Bob Hawke and uses all of the craft of the novelist to probe the personality of this contemporary folk-hero. The result is a magnificently readable account of how Hawke has come to believe he is destined to be Prime Minister.'
-Anne Summers