Book review: Sir Zelman Cowen, Isaac Isaacs (2nd edn), University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1993. pp. xxi + 272. $29.95 paper.
Bolton, G. (1999) Book review: Sir Zelman Cowen, Isaac Isaacs (2nd edn), University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1993. pp. xxi + 272. $29.95 paper. Labour History (77). pp. 225-226.
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Abstract
Biographers sometimes grow to resemble their subjects, but few can have shared the experience of Sir Zelman Cowen. Having published in 1967 a life of Sir Isaac Isaacs, Australia's first native-born governor-general, he found himself pitched into the same office ten years later, with the task of restoring credibility and 'a touch of healing' to a role somewhat battered by the controversies surrounding Sir John Kerr...
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publisher: | Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Inc. |
URI: | http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/15321 |
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