Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Risk and Reward : Biography as Political Intervention
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'We live in an age of leader- and media-centric politics. There is a name and a personality attached to every significant political initiative, and chief among them are prime ministers and premiers. Political junkies will be familiar with the torrent of ‘leader’ profiles generated by the press and well versed in identifying implicit bias. Yet we constitute a ready market for biographies of current (and perhaps rising) stars, and journalists are often first to seize the opportunity to write ‘the first draft of history’. How well do we understand the genre and its effects?' (Introduction) 

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    y separately published work icon Australian Book Review no. 452 April 2023 26016709 2023 periodical issue 'In the April issue of ABR, we look at power, with a major commentary from James Curran on Southeast Asian perceptions of Australian foreign policy, reviews of books about Australian prime ministers, Tanya Plibersek, American myths and hyperpower, and – at the other end of power – life on welfare. We review new fiction from Alexis Wright, Eleanor Catton, Margaret Atwood, Stephanie Bishop, and others. And in a provocative commentary, Debi Hamilton describes noise as the ‘new smoking’ and Peter Rose sketches a New York portrait of writers Darryl Pinckney and Elizabeth Hardwick.'  (Publication summary)  2023 pg. 27-28
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27-28 https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2023/april-2023-no-452/988-april-2023-no-452/10202-james-walter-reviews-political-lives-australian-prime-ministers-and-their-biographers-by-chris-wallace Risk and Reward : Biography as Political Interventionsmall AustLit logo Australian Book Review
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