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Lionel Murphy: A political biography by Jenny Hocking

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November 1997, no. 196

Lionel Murphy: A political biography by Jenny Hocking

Cambridge University Press, $39.95 hb, 376 pp

Lionel Murphy: A political biography by Jenny Hocking

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November 1997, no. 196

Lionel Murphy was a prominent and colourful figure in the ALP renaissance of the 1960s and 1970s, and a significant legal intellectual. The extraordinary saga of his final years, when he was hounded by political foes and the press, created a farrago of misunderstanding and innuendo that clouded his reputation. Jenny Hocking has set out to recover Murphy’s public life and to correct the record. Curiously, her emphasis on philosophy and consistency works against the interest of this story: the larrikin edge and the complexity of the man are smoothed away.

James Walter reviews 'Lionel Murphy: A political biography' by Jenny Hocking

Lionel Murphy: A political biography

by Jenny Hocking

Cambridge University Press, $39.95 hb, 376 pp

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