Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography by Jenny Hocking

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some minor marks on foredges. Small faint water stain on first few pages. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Small tear at top right corner of front cover, now protected with tape.

Jenny Hocking traces Murphy's life from childhood to his role in the Labor split of the 1950s, his pioneering work as a senator and reformist Attorney-General in the Whitlam government, to his rise to the bench of the High Court, through to his untimely death, amidst controversy, in 1986. (book flap)