The Private Don: Don Bradman on Cricket, Investment, Politics, the Media, Family and Friends by Christine Wallace

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at top edge and at spine. Some fading to back cover. Interior and binding are excellent.

The Private Don is the anatomy of a friendship between two quite remarkable men - Sir Donald Bradman, perhaps the greatest cricketer the world has known, and his close friend of twenty-five years standing, Rohan Rivett, the charismatic editor of Murdoch's The News in Adelaide.

This friendship was a confidential haven for Bradman, whose fame in cricketing nations was pervasive and the demands of celebrity onerous and exhausting. Each man treasured the privacy of the friendship. Neither wanted more than each man freely gave: mutual support on personal matters, feisty exchanges on cricket, the media and world affairs, closely argued opinions on investments and, always, the anticipation of their rare and revelled-in meetings over bottles of red with their wives.

Cricket is the cord that ties the friendship together. Rivett is the opinionated angel who goes where others more circumspect or on less intimate terms with The Don would fear to tread on cricket matters. (book flap)