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Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A portrait of Paul Keating PM by Don Watson

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June–July 2002, no. 242

Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A portrait of Paul Keating PM by Don Watson

Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A portrait of Paul Keating PM by Don Watson

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June–July 2002, no. 242

What is it about Paul Keating that so fascinated his retainers? Six years ago, John Edwards wrote a massive biography-cum-memoir taking Keating’s story to 1993. Now Don Watson has produced an even heftier tome. Narrower in chronological span – 1992 to 1996 – Watson is broader in his interests, more personal, more passionate. While not the masterpiece it might have been, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart remains the most compelling contemporary portrait of an Australian prime minister. Paul Keating has found his Boswell.

Recollections is really three books in one: a subtle and sympathetic analysis of the many facets of the twenty-fourth prime minister; a narrative of high – and low – politics in the Keating years; and a compendium of the political wit and wisdom of Don Watson.

Neal Blewett reviews 'Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A portrait of Paul Keating PM' by Don Watson

Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A portrait of Paul Keating PM

by Don Watson

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