Author: HOCKING, JENNY.
Title: Gough Whitlam: AMoment In History The Biography. Volume I. Gough Whitlam His Time. The Biography Volume II. Two Volumes.
Description: First Editions; Med. 8vo; Vol. I. pp. xviii, 472; Vol. II. pp. [x], 596; several pages of b/w. photographic plates in each volume, notes, bibliography, index, original cloth, titles lettered in gilt on spines, silk page markers, dustjackets, bookplate in each volume, fine copies. Carlton; The Miegunyah Press; 2008, 2012. The definitive biographical study of the former Labor Prime Minister. Gough swept to power in December 1972, ending twenty-three years of conservative rule. In barely three years he dramaticly transformed Australia. It was an ascendancy bitterly resented by some, never accepted by others, and ended with dismissal by the Governor General just three years later-on an outcome that polarised debate and left many believing the full story had not been told.

Keywords: Australian politics history biography