Paul Hasluck in Australian History: Civic Personality and Public Life edited by Tom Stannage, Kay Saunders and Richard Nile

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Scratch to top right front cover. Foredges are sunned and some foxing to right foredge.Binding is still very good.

Paul Hasluck (1905-1993) had many lives: poet, journalist, academic, historian, diplomat, politician and governor-general of Australia. As minister for territories for twelve years to the mid-1960s, he presided over the policy of assimilation. He was minister for defence at the height of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.

Yet Hasluck wrote moving and personal poetry. The public responsibilities and the personal life were significantly different. He lived a successful life in many fields of endeavour, but he always felt he had not done enough in any of them. (back cover)