Author : Derek Reilly Hawke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525270116
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Book Synopsis Wednesdays with Bob by : Derek Reilly Hawke
Download or read book Wednesdays with Bob written by Derek Reilly Hawke and published by . This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On Wednesdays, Robert J. Hawke - Australia's 23rd and oldest living prime minister - has welcomed Derek Rielly into his home to share fine cigars and irreverent conversation. On a sun-soaked balcony, the maverick young writer and the charismatic old master talk life, death, love, sex, religion, politics, sport ... and everything in between. On other days, to paint his subject's enigma from the outside, Rielly interviews Hawke's Liberal MP rival John Howard, Labor allies Gareth Evans and Kim Beazley, wife and lover Blanche d'Alpuget, live-in stepson Louis Pratt, and friends - diplomat Richard Woolcott, economist Ross Garnaut, advertising guru John Singleton, and longtime mate Col Cunningham. The result is an extraordinary portrait of a beloved Australian - a strange, funny, uniquely personal study of Bob Hawke ruminating on his (and our) past, present and future."