Born: Established: 1960 ;
Gender:
Female
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Political Lives : Australian Prime Ministers and Their Biographers
Sydney
:
NewSouth Publishing
,
2022
24489920
2022
single work
biography
'Political Lives is an intimate history of imagemaking and image-breaking in national politics. In 2011, Chris Wallace was writing a biography of Julia Gillard. After seeing the unparalleled onslaught from the Abbott opposition, she cancelled her contract and repaid her advance with the awareness of how hard the biography could hit. Political Lives is a result of that fraught experience. In it Wallace reflects on the roles and motives of biographers and their biographies in the 20th century.
'To discover who wrote biographies, and why, Wallace interviewed every living 20th century prime minister and their biographer, from Menzies to Hawke, Whitlam to Keating. The result is an intimate history of Australian national politics.' (Publication summary)
- 2023 longlisted Walkley Award — Best Non-Fiction Book
- 2023 longlisted Australian Political Book of the Year Award
- 2023 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's History Prize New South Wales History Prize — Australian History Prize
- 2023 longlisted Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature
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