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Australian political lives : chronicling political careers and administrative histories

Authors:Tracey Arklay, J. R. Nethercote, John Wanna

Summary:Brings together some of the best practitioners of the craft of political biography in Australia. These papers explore the strengths and weaknesses of the biographical approach; the problems and frustrations of writing biographies and the various ways projects can be approached by those constructing these lives

Print Book, English, ©2006

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Publisher: ANU E Press, Canberra, ©2006

Series:

ANZSOG monographs

Genre:Biographies

Physical Description:xiii, 130 pages ; 25 cm.

ISBN:

9781920942731, 9781920942748, 1920942734, 1920942742

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:123942502

Subjects:

Biographies dans les campagnes électorales Australie

Campaign biography

Campaign biography Australia

Hommes politiques Australie Biographies

Politicians Australia Biography

Contents:

The Art of Australian Political Biography

Political Biography: Its Contribution to Political Science

Recording Non-Labor Politics Through Biography

The 'Life Myth', 'Short Lives' and Dealing with Live Subjects in Political Biography

Public Lives, Private Lives: the Fundamental Dilemma in Political Biography

Expanding the Repertoire: Theory, Method and Language in Political Biography

John Curtin: Taking his Childhood Seriously

Ministers, Prime Ministers, Mandarins: Politics as a Job

Biography and the Rehabilitation of the Subject: The Case of John Gorton

Aboriginality and Impersonality: Three Australian Indigenous Administrative Memoirs

Writing Political Biography

Jessie Street and the New Political Biography

Conjuring Fascinating Stories: the Case of Sir Arthur Tange

Anonymous in Life, Anonymous in Death: Memoirs and Biographies of Administrators

The Personal Writings of Politicians

Writing Political Autobiographies

Political Biographies and Administrative Memoirs: Some Concluding Comments

Notes:

"The Australia and New Zealand School of Government"--Cover

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