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The Latham Diaries (paperback)

Mark Latham

'Now that the Diaries are published, politicians and political journalists will have flipped through the index looking with apprehension and horror for the entries about themselves and cackling with delight at the author’s jibes about their colleagues.

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'Now that the Diaries are published, politicians and political journalists will have flipped through the index looking with apprehension and horror for the entries about themselves and cackling with delight at the author’s jibes about their colleagues. How many of them will read the book and understand its value as commentary on Australian political culture is a different matter.’—John Button, The Age

‘the most important book yet published on Labor’s wilderness years’—Neal Blewett, Australian Book Review

‘[a] damning account of Labor’s feuds, machinations and toxic culture’—Mike Steketee, The Australian

‘entertaining, compelling and comical’—Tony Wright, The Bulletin

‘The political book of the decade’—Stephen Mayne, Crikey

‘the most intelligent, perceptive, honest and absorbing book about Australian politics since Don Watson’s Keating masterpiece.’—Robert Manne, The Monthly

Here is the paperback edition of the political diaries of one of Australia’s most promising national leaders—originally published within twelve months of his resignation from office—an historic first. The Latham Diaries are searlingly honest bulletins from the front line of Labor politics. They provide a unique view into the life of a man, the Party and the nation at a critical time in Australian history.

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978-0-522-85269-1