Bob Hawke : the complete biography

Resource Information

The work Bob Hawke : the complete biography represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Bob Hawke : the complete biography

Title remainder

the complete biography

Statement of responsibility

Blanche d'Alpuget

Creator

• trueD'Alpuget, Blanche, 1944-

Contributor

• trueD'Alpuget, Blanche, 1944-

Author

• trueD'Alpuget, Blanche, 1944-

Subject

• Australian Labor Party -- History -- 20th century
• Australian history
• Biographies
• Hawke, Bob, 1929-2019
• trueLabor unions -- Australia -- Officials and employees -- Biography
• truePoliticians -- Australia -- Biography
• truePrime ministers -- Australia -- Biography
• Prime ministers -- Australia -- History -- Biography
• Trade-unions -- Australia -- Officials and employees -- Biography
• trueAustralia -- Politics and government -- 1976-1990
• trueAustralian

Genre

• trueBiography
• trueBiographies

Language

eng

Summary

To mark Bob Hawke's extraordinary life and legacy, this master work brings together the story of the man in full in a definitive hardback commemorative biography. Bob Hawke began life as a good Christian boy from a teetotal family, became a wild, drinking, womanising student, a Rhodes Scholar, a champion of workers, a folk hero recognised throughout the country, a dynamic politician who was elected four times as Australia's Prime Minister - and transformed his country. He was our longest serving Labor Prime Minister and considered by many our greatest. By the early 1980s Australia was on the road to becoming 'the poor white trash of Asia?. Hawke as prime minister, with Paul Keating as treasurer, changed all that. Australia became a forward-looking and humane country whose voice commanded respect on the international stage. Hawke was an environmentalist before it was fashionable, he loathed racism, helped end apartheid in South Africa, sent ministers to end the war in Cambodia, foresaw that China would become a great world power and established the first Chinese investment in an iron ore mine in Australia. His journey from the manse of a small South Australian country town to the palaces of Europe, Asia and the United States is the odyssey of a leader it is hard to imagine we will ever see the like of again - a man of towering passions and commitment to causes, and an unshakeable love of humanity

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

994.06

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

general