FROM NAVVY’S ASSISTANT TO PRIME MINISTER – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AUSTRALIA’S FIRST LABOR PM IN SEARCH OF JOHN CHRISTIAN WATSON: LABOR’S FIRST PRIME MINISTER by Michael Easson Connor Court Publishing 2024 ISBN: 9781923224155 RRP: $29.95 (pb) Reviewed by Keith Harvey Johan Christian Tanck, the son of a German-Chilean merchant seaman and born [...]
DANCING TO THE MUSIC OF TIME ANTHONY POWELL by Hilary Spurling Hamish Hamilton 2017 ISBN: 978 0 241 14383 4 RRP: $55 (hb) Reviewed by Anne Henderson “What are you reading?” was the query from an academic friend with a law degree and doctorate. “A biography of the writer Anthony Powell,” was my response. A [...]
TIANANMEN SQUARE AND ITS AFTERMATH – 35 YEARS ON THE TRACES OF TIME – A CHINESE POLITICAL PRISONER SOLICITED BY THE US, by JianMin Wu [Wu Jianmin]. Bouden House, New York RRP: $US38.00 Reviewed by Keith Harvey The 2024 US Vice-Presidential candidates debate between J D Vance and Tim Walz was broadcast live into [...]
