Evatt
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Evatt

A Life

  1. 473 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Evatt

A Life

About this book

John Murphy's Evatt: A life is a biography of Australian parliamentarian and jurist HV Evatt. Remembered as the first foreign minister to argue for an independent Australian policy in the 1940s and for his central role in the formation of the UN, Evatt went on to be the leader of the Labor party in the 1950s, the time of the split that resulted in the party being out of power for a generation. Evatt traces the course of Evatt's life and places him in the context of a long period of conservatism in Australia. It treats Evatt's inner, personal life as being just as important as his spectacular, controversial and eventual tragic public career. Murphy looks closely at Evatt's previously unexamined private life and unravels some of the puzzles that have lead Evatt to be considered erratic, even mad. 'Bert' Evatt remains a polarising figure – still considered by many in Labor as the man who 'split the party' and by many conservatives as unreliable and dangerous.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Author's Notes
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Introduction: The Puzzle
  8. 1: The Boy
  9. 2: The Young Evatt
  10. 3: Love and the Law
  11. 4: Politics and Jack Lang
  12. 5: The Judge
  13. 6: The Moderns
  14. 7: The Historian as Judge
  15. Images Section
  16. 8: The Celebrity Candidate
  17. 9: The Minister
  18. 10: To San Francisco
  19. 11: 'The President of the World'
  20. 12: The Labor Leader
  21. 13: The Petrov Affair
  22. 14: 'The Wrecker'
  23. 15: The Wreckage
  24. 16: 'Dropping to Pilot'
  25. Epilogue
  26. The Players
  27. Notes
  28. Sources
  29. Bibliograhy
  30. Index