Harold Holt: Always one step further
La Trobe University Press, $34.99 pb, 324 pp
Handsome Harold
If Scott Morrison taught us nothing else, it is that we must pay attention to the behaviour of leaders who can take decisions that potentially impact us all. That is reason enough to welcome serious political biography. Yet a reader new to the field might be puzzled to find on her bookshop shelves (or in an online search) multiple volumes on, say, Robert Menzies or Bob Hawke and now Harold Holt – even Scott Morrison – and many others. There is no dearth of choice: the question is how to choose?
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Harold Holt: Always one step further
by Ross Walker
La Trobe University Press, $34.99 pb, 324 pp
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