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Tales from the Political Trenches by Maxine McKew (2013, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMelbourne University Publishing

ISBN-100522862217

ISBN-139780522862218

eBay Product ID (ePID)150577698

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

Publication NameTales from the Political Trenches

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

SubjectPersonal Memoirs, General, Australia & New Zealand

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorMaxine Mckew

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight16.1 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

SynopsisJulia Gillard was impatient for the prime ministership, and either worked with or allowed others to manufacture a sense of crisis around Rudd s leadership. She then cut down a prime minister in his first term and tried to pretend it was in the national interest to do so. Since then, she has been the architect of her own misfortune.' In Tales from the Political Trenches Maxine McKew counters the view that Julia Gillard was a reluctant deputy who was forced to move against a chaotic and dysfunctional Kevin Rudd--and offers a different version of events. Her story is an intimate account of one of the most tumultuous periods in Australian politics, as well as a tale of personal change. She brings a reporter's eye and an insider's knowledge to a story that has caused despair among Labor supporters and produced disillusionment among the electorate. After winning a spectacular victory against Prime Minister John Howard in 2007, McKew was one of the many casualties of the disastrous 2010 election campaign, when Labor was left clinging to the wreckage and forced into minority government. Still dealing with her own disappointments in a political career cut short by t|9780522862218|