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Harold Holt: Always One Step Further

Ross Walker
3.94/5 (29 ratings)
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Harold 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
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
408 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
La Trobe University Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1743822553
ISBN13:
9781743822555
kindle Asin:
B09WHJCXX4

Harold Holt: Always One Step Further

Ross Walker
3.94/5 (29 ratings)
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Harold 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
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
408 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
La Trobe University Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1743822553
ISBN13:
9781743822555
kindle Asin:
B09WHJCXX4

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