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'A brilliant biography for an election year . . .
'Who is Bill Shorten? How did he rise to become Labor leader? And does he have what it takes to beat Malcolm Turnbull and lead the country?
'In Faction Man, David Marr traces the hidden career of a Labor warrior. In dazzling style, he shows how a brilliant recruiter and formidable campaigner mastered first the unions and then the party. Marr presents a man willing to deal with his enemies and shift his allegiances, whose ambition to lead has been fixed since childhood.
'But does he stand for anything? Is Shorten a defender of Labor values in today's Australia or a shape-shifter, driven entirely by politics? How does the union world he comes from shape the prime minister he might be? Marr reveals a man we hardly know: a virtuoso with numbers and a strategist of skill who Labor hopes will return the party to power.' (Publication summary)
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David Marr, Faction Man: Bill Shorten’s Path to Power
2015
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review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 26 September 2015;
— Review of Faction Man : Bill Shorten's Path to Power 2016 single work biography -
The Congenial Candidate
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside Story , September 2015;
— Review of Faction Man : Bill Shorten's Path to Power 2016 single work biography 'Can Bill Shorten sell an unexciting message? Norman Abjorensen reviews David Marr’s new Quarterly Essay'
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David Marr, Faction Man: Bill Shorten’s Path to Power
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 26 September 2015;
— Review of Faction Man : Bill Shorten's Path to Power 2016 single work biography -
The Congenial Candidate
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside Story , September 2015;
— Review of Faction Man : Bill Shorten's Path to Power 2016 single work biography 'Can Bill Shorten sell an unexciting message? Norman Abjorensen reviews David Marr’s new Quarterly Essay'