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Australian political lives : chronicling political careers and administrative histories / editors: Tracey Arklay, John Nethercote and John Wanna.
- Title
- Australian political lives : chronicling political careers and administrative histories / editors: Tracey Arklay, John Nethercote and John Wanna.
- Publication
- Canberra : ANU E Press, c2006.
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- Description
- xiii, 130 p.; 25 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- ANSOG monographs
- ANZSOG monographs
- Uniform Title
- ANZSOG monographs.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Note
- Includes index.
- "The Australia and New Zealand School of Government"--Cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 115-128.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page: http://epress.anu.edu.au
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 1920942734 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2007405586
- OCLC
- 123942502
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library