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Washing away the myths

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October 2005, no. 275

The Life and Death of Harold Holt by Tom Frame

Allen & Unwin, $35 pb, 392 pp

Washing away the myths

by
October 2005, no. 275

This is not an airport read; anyone wanting colourful stories about Harold Holt’s private life will have to dig deep. Dr Tom Frame, Anglican Bishop to the Australian Defence Force, has written the first substantial biography of Australia’s seventeenth prime minister, who succeeded Robert Menzies in early 1966 and drowned on 17 December 1967. The Life and Death of Harold Holt, about ten years in the making, is a meticulously researched and scholarly work, and should become an essential reference for anyone interested in Australian politics and history. It wasn’t a commissioned work, but Frame deals with his subject sympathetically.

Kate Baillieu reviews 'The Life and Death of Harold Holt' by Tom Frame

The Life and Death of Harold Holt

by Tom Frame

Allen & Unwin, $35 pb, 392 pp

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