David day paul keating biography

Due to major building activity, some collections are unavailable. Please check your requests before visiting. Learn more. In the tradition of his bestselling Curtin and Chifley, David Day's exhaustive biography of one of our most fascinating prime ministers. Paul Keating was one of the most significant political figures of the late twentieth century, first as Treasurer for eight years and then Prime Minister for five years.

Apart from six political biographies, including prize-winning biographies of John Curtin and Ben Chifley, he has written several books about the Second World War and others on Antarctica. His landmark history of Australia, Claiming a Continent, won the South Australian Festival Prize for Non-Fiction, while his book, Conquest: How societies overwhelm others, has been translated into several languages.

A graduate of Melbourne and Cambridge universities, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, he has been a research fellow at Clare College in Cambridge, a visiting fellow at Churchill College in Cambridge, a professor of history at University College Dublin, a visiting professor for two years at the University of Tokyo, and a visiting fellow at Aberdeen University in Scotland.

He has served as the official historian of the Australian Customs Service and the Bureau of Meteorology and been an Australian Research Council senior research fellow at La Trobe University in Melbourne, where he is currently based. Paul Keating. David A Day. Write a customer review. Images in this review. Top reviews from Australia. There was a problem filtering reviews right now.

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David day paul keating biography: In the tradition of his bestselling

Reads like a novel - never a dull moment. The story rips along apace. Provides some sense of the man's inner thoughts and motivations. It's interesting because Keating himself is interesting. One person found this helpful. Great read. A fantastic biography that is well-written and captivating. I am encouraged to read the other books David Day has written.

Being quite a fan of Paul Keating and having read his collected speeches, this book fills the gap of a broader biography. I was previously unaware that Keating had a specific learning difficulty around reading, but brilliantly compensated for this by learning directly from in-depth discussions with people, most famously with Jack Lang a former Premier of NSW and, when he was Prime Minister, from a wide range of people, perhaps most interestingly historian Manning Clark.

Keating was a visionary in terms of shaping Australia, although we still await the transition to a republic that he favoured. About the author.

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Displaying 1 - 12 of 12 reviews. Hazel Edwards. Author books 96 followers. Insightful journey into the world of an ambitious politician. Well written with the biographer portraying the facts and allowing the reader to deduce. Politicians are required to read a lot. Keating's strategies for coping with his dyslexic challenges by oral tutorials with older experts, speaking rather than reading his speeches and being briefed by advisors made a liability into an asset.

A hard worker driven by wanting the role of Prime Minister, his sharp tongued ,colourful language didn't work so well once he became PM and was expected to be more statesmanlike. This biography creates the economic and social context for those maybe unfamiliar with the period. Highly recommended, even for non economists. And especially on the dangers of ego -driven ambition overcoming altruism, it is recommended for anyone contemplating politics.

I was prepared to give this book a strong review until it became clear the author fabricated his claim that Keating is an incompetent reader suffering from undiagnosed dyslexia.