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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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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 Intervention
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- Political Lives : Australian Prime Ministers and Their Biographers 2022 single work biography
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