Harold Holt: Always One Step Further - Paperback
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'A beautifully told story of a fascinating Australian life and a tragic prime ministership - not only in its bizarre end, but in the entanglement of an amiable, easygoing man in poisonous political rivalry, and a brutal and contentious war in Vietnam.' -Frank Bongiorno
Harold Holt: Always One Step Further - Paperback
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by Ross Walker (Author)
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.
'A beautifully told story of a fascinating Australian life and a tragic prime ministership - not only in its bizarre end, but in the entanglement of an amiable, easygoing man in poisonous political rivalry, and a brutal and contentious war in Vietnam.' -Frank Bongiorno
Number of Pages: 344
Dimensions: 0.77 x 9.21 x 6.02 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: August 30, 2022
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