Political Lives

Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.What was the story behind Bob Hawke' s famed biography? Why does Paul Keating think biographies of serving politicians are ‘ like Polaroids of a busy life' while John Howard considers them a big mistake? Where is the ‘ missing' Menzies biography? Why are our early prime ministers largely absent from historical memory? Chris Wallace writes Australian political history anew through this account of prime