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The Brilliant Boy; Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent
by Gideon Haigh
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1760856118
- ISBN 13
- 9781760856113
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About This Item
Sydney, Scribner. 2021. First edition hardcover, as new.
These days, 'Doc' Evatt is remembered mainly as the hapless and divisive opposition leader during the long ascendancy of his great rival Sir Robert Menzies. Yet long before we spoke of 'public intellectuals', Evatt was one: a dashing advocate, an inspired jurist, an outspoken opinion maker, one of our first popular historians and the nation's foremost champion of modern art. Through Evatt's innovative and empathic decision in Chester v the Council of Waverley Municipality, which argued for the law to acknowledge inner suffering as it did physical injury, Gideon Haigh rediscovers the most brilliant Australian of his day, a patriot with a vision of his country charting its own path and being its own example – the same attitude he brought to being the only Australian president of the UN General Assembly, and instrumental in the foundation of Israel.
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- NF40164
- Title
- The Brilliant Boy; Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent
- Author
- Gideon Haigh
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1760856118
- ISBN 13
- 9781760856113
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 2021
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography and Memoir; Australian History; Politics;
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