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Reflections on Recollections of a Bleeding Heart (Storycuts) [EPUB ebook]

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Ten years on, award-winning writer Don Watson reflects on Paul Keating’s response to Recollections of a Bleeding Heart.Ranging across the contract, roles and expectations of writing speeches for the orator to own; the bonds and boundaries of speechwriter and maker; how politics and government work in this country; and the freedoms and responsibilities of the biographer, Don Watson gives us much to consider. Including the role of the Keating government in the demise of big-picture politics and the move to poll-driven caution, the transition from society to economy and the debasement of political debate.Including a bonus free chapter from Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, anniversary edition.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 45 ● ISBN 9781742759173 ● Publisher Penguin Random House Australia ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2532523 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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