| ISBN |
9781925498660 |
| Author |
Brett, Judith, 1949 - (author.) |
| Title |
The enigmatic Mr Deakin / Judith Brett. |
| Other title |
Enigmatic Mister Deakin |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2017. |
| ©2017 |
| Description |
490 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits, plates, facsimiles ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 464-474) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Immigrant's child -- 2. Melbourne Grammar -- 3. After school -- 4. The plunge into spiritualism -- 5. Liberals, Conservatives and David Syme -- 6. West Bourke --7. 'I am the boy' -- 8. Mp and lover -- 9. James Service, annexation and federation -- 10. irrigation and the Factory Acts -- 11. triumph in London -- 12. native son -- 13. high boom -- 14. 1890 - fedeartion and the maritime strike -- 15. Alfred, Pattie and Catherine -- 16. tangled times -- 17. the death of William and the return to the law -- 18. midlife -- 19. 'the times that try men's souls' -- 20. London, 1900. |
| 21. the Hopetoun blunder -- 22. celebrations and beginnings -- 23. Attorney-General and Acting Prime minister -- 24. 1903 -- 25. Prime minister I -- 26. Labor in, Labor out -- 27. another path? -- 28. Prime minister II -- 29. Imperialist -- 30. defence and the new protection -- 31. the great white fleet -- 32. fusion -- 33. Prime minister III -- 34. leader of the opposition -- 35. 'the world forgetting, by the world forgot' -- 36. afterlife. |
| Summary |
This insightful and accessible new biography of Alfred Deakin, Australia's second prime minister, shines fresh light on one of the nation's most significant figures. It brings out from behind the image of a worthy, bearded father of federation the gifted, passionate and intriguing man whose contributions continue to shape the contours of Australian politics. The acclaimed political scientist Judith Brett scrutinises both Deakin's public life and his inner life. Deakin's private papers reveal a solitary, religious character who found distasteful much of the business of politics, with its unabashed self-interest, double-dealing, and mediocre intellectual levels. And yet politics is where Deakin chose to do his life's work. Destined to become a classic of biography, The Enigmatic Mr Deakin is a masterly portrait of a complex man who was instrumental in creating modern Australia. |
| Subjects |
Deakin, Alfred, -- 1856-1919 |
| Prime ministers -- Australia -- Biography |
| Statesmen -- Australia -- Biography |
| Australia -- Politics and government -- To 1900 |
| Australia -- Politics and government -- 1901-1914 |
| Australia -- History -- Federation, 1901 |
| Call number |
2017.289 |
