Harold Holt

Always One Step Further

Harold Holt
Ross Walker
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Paperback
Not defined - 368pg
30 Aug 2022 AU
International import eta 7-19 days
9781760643836
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A revelatory biography of Harold Holt, the prime minister who helped create modern AustraliaHarold Holt was a pivotal prime minister in Australian history. Ambitious, modern and telegenic, he helped bring his party and nation into the late twentieth century, following the Menzies years. Nowhere was Holt' s legacy more significant than in the 1967 referendum, and in helping to end the White Australia policy. At the same time, as the Vietnam War raged, Holt dramatically increased Australian troops, telling President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 that Australia was ' all the way with LBJ' . In this evocative, intimate and deeply researched biography, Ross Walker captures the worlds in which Holt moved and the people who were close to him. He reveals a popular, gentle, yet at times self-destructive man, whose tendency to always go one step further would have fatal consequences. This is a strikingly original portrait of Australia' s seventeenth prime minister.
Ross Walker was for many years a high-school teacher of English and English Literature, about which he has published several books and many articles. He has a doctorate in American literature, and specialised knowledge of Australian and American politics, especially during the 1960s.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781760643836
Published: 30 Aug 2022
Published In: Australia
Imprint: La Trobe University Press
Publisher: Black Inc
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368

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