The March of Patriots: The Struggle for Modern Australia by Paul Kelly

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Insect damage to outside layer of book covers, hidden by the dust jacket. Interior and binding are still very good. Dust jacket is good condition with a small tear to spine tail, now reinforced with book tape.

The inside story of how Paul Keating and John Howard changed Australia. It sees Keating and Howard as conviction politicians, tribal warriors and national interest patriots.

Divided by belief, temperament and party, they were united by generation, city and the challenge to make Australia into a successful nation for the globalised age.

This book is about the making of policy and the uses of power. It captures the authentic nature of Australian politics as distinct from the polemics advanced by both sides. Its focus is how Keating and Howard as Prime Ministers altered the nation's direction, redefined their parties and struggled over Australia's new economic, social, cultural and foreign policy agendas.

A sequel to Paul Kelly's bestselling The End of Certainty, it is based on more than 100 interviews with the two key players, politicians, advisers and public servants. (publishers blurb)