Hawke

Robert James Lee Hawke is one of the great men of Australian public life and his story makes compelling reading. Blanche d’Alpuget’s sensitivity and psychological insight into Hawke’s early years reveal how the son of devout Christian parents was reared to public duty and to the ambition of political leadership. Known throughout his life as a tireless campaigner for workers’ rights and a man of wild personal habits, Hawke was a Rhodes Scholar, educated in three universities, before rejecting …