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Sto caricando le informazioni... Speechless: A Year in My Father's Businessdi James Button
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A highly readable and often moving personal recollection of family life and Labor Party politics in recent Australian history. ( ) James Button experienced a gentle midlife crisis. Instead of buying a red car and running away with his secretary he quit journalism and journeyed to Canberra, ostensibly to be Kevin Rudd's speechwriter. That did not work out and this book is the result. It rambles between topics such as the Australian Public Service, the Australian Labor Party and the author's father's long involvement with it. There is also a mixture of biography and autobiography. These topics are interesting but read more as a sequence of essays than as a coherent book. James Button changed career from journalism to public service (and later, grassroots ALP volunteer). Unfortunately, his public servant's circumspection overcame his journalist's need to reveal truth to the public. Even the biographical elements seem muted and restrained. As a consequence of this restraint, the book does not ultimately say much. Since I was attracted by the insider's point of view of the Kevin Rudd leadership style, I inevitably found the rest of Button's book underwhelming. My fault rather than his perhaps. I liked the sections about his short and unsuccessful attempts to write speeches for a Prime Minister who preferred to sit up until 3am writing his own. His autobiographical reflections were engaging too, but I found his account of life as a public servant rather turgid. Others may not, I suppose. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Working for Rudd, James paints a colourful picture of the machinations of government and shows how far the party has moved from the idealism and pragmatism of his father's generation. He ends on a note of hope for the Party's revival. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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