Evatt: A Life by John Murphy

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Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. No internal stamps or stickers. RFID patch on inside back cover. Remnant date due slip is now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Pages have sunned. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and some faint sunning to top edge. Interior and binding are still very good.

A biography of Australian parliamentarian and jurist H V Evatt. Remembered as the first foreign minister to argue for an independent Australian policy in the 1940s and for his central role in the formation of the United Nations, Evatt went on to be the leader of the Labor Party in the 1950s, the time of the split that resulted in the party being out of power for a generation.

John Murphy traces the course of Evatt's life and places him in the context of a long period of conservatism in Australia. Murphy looks closely at Evatt's previously unexamined private life and unravels some of the puzzles that have led Evatt to be considered erratic, even mad.

'Bert' Evatt remains a polarising figure - still considered by many in Labor as the man who 'split the party' and by many conservatives as unreliable and dangerous. (publisher blurb)