Author: EDWARDS, JOHN.
Title: Curtin's Gift. Reinterpreting Australia's Greatest Prime Minister.
Description: Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2005. 1865087041. 1st edition. "John Curtin, prime minister during the darkest days of the Second World War, is remembered as the reluctant hero of Australian politics..(Edwards) offers a reinterpretation of the leader and the man in which Curtin emerges as a deceptively cunning player in the chess game of politics. He also argues that overblown claims for Curtin 'the warlord' have obscured his much more important legacy in laying the economic foundations of today's Australia." Pp.x/198, 14 black & white photo illustrations. Brown boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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