Recollections Of A Bleeding Heart : A Portrait Of Paul Keating PM - Watson Don - 2003

772 pages. May have had front end page removed.. Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have superficial edgewear and corners are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. Edges of pages are lightly browned. Pages are lightly tanned and lightly creased. Since its publication in March 2002, RECOLLECTIONS OF A BLEEDING HEART has sold over 50,000 copies and won a string of prestigious awards including The Age Book of the Year and Best Non-fiction book, The Courier-Mail Book of the Year and the National Biography Award. Political commentator aand himself a Keating biographer aMichael Gordon calls the book 'a masterpiece...simply the best inside account of life, politics and combat inside the highest office of the land ever written.' Don Watson was employed as Keating's speechwriter in 1992, less than a month after Keating took the country's top job. Though trained in history rather than economics and generally regarded as a 'bleeding heart liberal', Watson became a close advisor and friend to the Prime Minister. Based on notes Watson kept during the four turbulent and exhausting years he spent working in the Prime Minister's Office, RECOLLECTIONS OF A BLEEDING HEART is a political memoir told from the inside; Keating himself says it is 'like the black box recorder in a plane'. The book is a unique reflection on modern Australian politics, but Watson offers much more than political analysis. With empathy and insight, he provide Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; polictics; Signed by Author. ISBN: 1740512146. ISBN/EAN: 9781740512145. Inventory No: 20041042. By: Watson Don Year: 2003 Visit our website to view thousands more products like this and order online at: