A life on the left : a biography of Clyde Cameron / Bill Guy
- Bib ID:
- 1337899
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Guy, Bill, author
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- Kent Town, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 1999
- ©1999
- ix, 405 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 1862544743
- 1862544794
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Landmarks in a life
- Preface A sense of betrayal
- Part One: The early years 1913-1949
- 1 Mother and mentor
- 2 A Huckleberry childhood
- 3 Shearing-shed graduate
- 4 'Shithouse Cameron'
- 5 Global war - industrial strife
- 6 The best of mates
- 7 Tom the Terrible
- 8 Tragedy and triumph
- Part Two: Member of the Opposition 1949-1972
- 9 The Member for Hindmarsh
- 10 Chifley, idol and model
- 11 A humiliation for Menzies
- 12 Splits and spies
- 13 Battle for the party
- 14 Tackling the tyrant
- 15 Death of a marriage
- 16 New leader, new broom
- 17 Crusader triumphant
- 18 The fraudulent war
- 19 The 'architect of victory'
- 20 Wife and political ally
- 21 Suicide or murder?
- Part Three: In and out of power 1972-1980
- 22 Out of the wilderness
- 23 Alarm at the White House
- 24 Clawed by the 'fat cats'
- 25 Re-slicing the national cake
- 26 Government on the precipice
- 27 The worst day in a life
- 28 Photographic memory
- 29 The Budget blockbuster
- 30 The politician as historian
- 31 Farewell to Parliament
- Part Four: Life after Parliament, 1981-
- 32 Campaign against the privateers
- 33 A Niagara of words
- 34 Still the working-class warrior
- 35 The case for and against
- Postscript Looking back - and forward
- Clyde Cameron's political code
- Source notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- National Library's SR copy is an association copy inscribed to Sir John Gorton by Clyde Cameron on 1 July 1999 and accompanied by a letter. It was picked up in a local Salvation Army charity shop for $8.00.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 390-394) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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