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Christine Wallace Review of Tom D. C. Roberts, Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty and Paul Strangio, Paul ‘t Hart and James Walter, The Pivot of Power : Australian Prime Ministers and Political Leadership, 1949–2016 single work   review  
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Christine Wallace Review of Tom D. C. Roberts, Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty and Paul Strangio, Paul ‘t Hart and James Walter, The Pivot of Power : Australian Prime Ministers and Political Leadership, 1949–2016
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'When Keith Murdoch died in 1952, the Herald and Weekly Times published a  62-page encomium, Keith Murdoch, Journalist. 1 Referred to in house as the ‘Sir Keith Murdoch Tribute Book’, a limited edition of 2,500 copies was published for staff, friends and business associates.2 The brilliant and beneficent Murdoch of the ‘tribute book’—son of Scottish migrants to Melbourne, Rev. Patrick Murdoch and wife Annie (née Brown), and nephew of esteemed Australian academic and essayist Walter Murdoch—was a visionary who built Australia’s first national media empire. It barely mentioned his son, Keith Rupert Murdoch, 21 years old at the time, who seized the patriarch’s news baton and built the world’s most powerful international media empire.' (Introduction)

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  • Also reviews : Paul Strangio, Paul ‘t Hart and James Walter, The Pivot of Power: Australian Prime Ministers and Political Leadership, 1949–2016

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    y separately published work icon Australian Journal of Biography and History no. 3 April 2020 21209150 2020 periodical issue 'Australians have always been great travellers, not only internationally but between  Australian states and territories. Writing about Australian lives is thus a  biographical challenge when they transcend national and internal boundaries. It means that, when dealing with mobile subjects, biographers need to be nimble diachronically, because of changing locales over time, and synchronically because many Australians have not always seen themselves as bound to a particular place. Nonetheless, despite the problems of writing about mobile lives, the deft use of biography appeals as a means of examining individual life paths in their immediate contexts within the larger scales suggested by transnational historical practice. An abundance of books, edited volumes, and articles have followed individuals, families, and other collectives as they ‘career’ (to use the term adopted by Lambert and Lester in their influential 2006 volume, Colonial Lives Across the British Empire) around the globe.' (Malcolm Allbrook, Preface) 2020 pg. 185-190
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