Harold Holt: Always One Step Further

Walker, Ross
Harold Holt: Always One Step Further

Harold Holt: Always One Step Further

Walker, Ross

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A revelatory biography of Harold Holt, the prime minister who helped create modern Australia


Harold Holt was a pivotal prime minister in Australian history. Ambitious, modern and telegenic, he helped bring his party and nation into the late twentieth century, following the Menzies years. Nowhere was Holt's legacy more significant than in the 1967 referendum, and in helping to end the White Australia policy. At the same time, as the Vietnam War raged, Holt dramatically increased Australian troops, telling President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 that Australia was 'all the way with LBJ'.

In this evocative, intimate and deeply researched biography, Ross Walker captures the worlds in which Holt moved and the people who were close to him. He reveals a popular, gentle, yet at times self-destructive man, whose tendency to always go one step further would have fatal consequences. This is a strikingly original portrait of Australia's seventeenth prime minister.

Author:   Walker, Ross
Publisher:   Black Inc.
ISBN:  

9781760643836


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   30 August 2022
Bind Format:   Paperback
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A revelatory biography of Harold Holt, the prime minister who helped create modern Australia


Harold Holt was a pivotal prime minister in Australian history. Ambitious, modern and telegenic, he helped bring his party and nation into the late twentieth century, following the Menzies years. Nowhere was Holt's legacy more significant than in the 1967 referendum, and in helping to end the White Australia policy. At the same time, as the Vietnam War raged, Holt dramatically increased Australian troops, telling President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 that Australia was 'all the way with LBJ'.

In this evocative, intimate and deeply researched biography, Ross Walker captures the worlds in which Holt moved and the people who were close to him. He reveals a popular, gentle, yet at times self-destructive man, whose tendency to always go one step further would have fatal consequences. This is a strikingly original portrait of Australia's seventeenth prime minister.

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Author:   Walker, Ross
Publisher:   Black Inc.
ISBN:  

9781760643836


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   30 August 2022
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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