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Note: Peter Costello with Peter Coleman.
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 The Costello Memoirs
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'The Costello Memoirs is a frank and fearless look inside the engine-room of the Liberal Party and the Howard Government.

'In a political career spanning eighteen years, Peter Costello, Australia's longest serving Treasurer, steered the Government through some of its greatest economic and political challenges, paying off Government debt, introducing the GST and fighting five elections.

'What were the backroom deals that made the GST possible? How did Costello transform the Australian economy from Asia's 'white trash' into the economic powerhouse able to withstand the financial meltdown of the late 1990s?

'What did Costello make of the Liberal Leaders he served with, and why did he find it so easy to trounce Labor's Shadow Treasurers?

'For the first time, the facts about the McLachlan memorandum on the leadership transition from Howard to Costello are revealed. How-and why-did the Liberal Party pass up the chance to make generational change and revitalise a Government that was sliding into defeat?

'The Costello Memoirs answers these questions, and charts the victories and defeats in one man's very public life.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Melbourne University Press , 2008 .
      Extent: 400p., 16p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • Includes index.
      ISBN: 0522855822, 9780522855821 (hbk.)

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— Appears in: The Age , 30 October 2010; (p. 3)
Writing the Costello Memoirs Peter Coleman , 2008 single work prose
— Appears in: The Sydney Papers , Summer vol. 20 no. 4 2008; (p. 51-53)
On Being a Co-Author Peter Coleman , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Quadrant , December vol. 52 no. 12 2008; (p. 52-53)
The Man Who Wouldn't Be King Shaun Carney , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 20 September 2008; (p. 21)

— Review of The Costello Memoirs Peter Costello , Peter Coleman , 2008 single work autobiography
This Week's Selections Michael McGuire , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 September 2008; (p. 13)

— Review of The Costello Memoirs Peter Costello , Peter Coleman , 2008 single work autobiography
Ambition from the Sidelines Mike Steketee , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 September 2008; (p. 14-15)

— Review of The Costello Memoirs Peter Costello , Peter Coleman , 2008 single work autobiography
He Should Have Known Better Peter Van Onselen , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , October vol. 3 no. 9 2008; (p. 9-10)

— Review of The Costello Memoirs Peter Costello , Peter Coleman , 2008 single work autobiography
Don't Ignore Pete, He's Got a Lot to Say Andrew Fraser , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 October 2008; (p. 16)

— Review of The Costello Memoirs Peter Costello , Peter Coleman , 2008 single work autobiography
Thanks for the Memoirs : Costello Sells His Story Andrew Rule , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 31 August 2008; (p. 3)
Seller or Cellar? Costello Book Ailing Thomas Morgan , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 21 September 2008; (p. 10)
Costello Outsold by a Cookbook Matthew Clayfield , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 September 2008; (p. 9)
Undercover Susan Wyndham , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 October 2008; (p. 30)
A column canvassing current literary news including a brief report on sales of Peter Costello's The Costello Memoirs and a note about the release of an Australian edition of the Spectator.
The Conflict Business Peter Hartcher , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Monthly , November no. 40 2008; (p. 54-56, 58)
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