The Many Lives of Kenneth Myer
$101.36
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2008
Summary
This biography is about great wealth, power and responsibility, and Kenneth Myer’s search for meaning and purpose in a life defined by his father’s success and his mother’s ambition.
When Kenneth Baillieu Myer’s father fell dead on the footpath in 1934, Ken’s life changed in an instant. As the eldest son of the Jewish immigrant retailing genius, Sidney Baevski Myer, who went from pedlar to philanthropist millionaire in fifteen years, 13-year-old Ken was immediately acknowledged as hea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522855463 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522855466 |
| Author: | Sue Ebury |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | The Miegunyah Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2008 |
| Weight: | 1.07kg |
| Dimensions: | 57mm x 168mm x 241mm |
| Series: | Miegunyah Volumes Second |
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Sue Ebury
Sue Ebury was born and educated in New Zealand. After nineteen years as an editor and publishing director at an international publishing house, she moved to Hong Kong, where she edited The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop and wrote the bestselling biography Weary- The Life of Sir Edward Dunlop.
Ken Myer’s children commissioned the biography of their father, and Sue’s research of Ken’s life took her to the United Kingdon, Italy, Japan, Canada and the United States, where she interviewed friends and business associates.
Sue returned to Australia in 1994, where she lives in Mount Macedon, Victoria.
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