Private Don: The man behind the legend of Don Bradman

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'Have you ever stopped to think how much the hurly burly and turmoil of cricket have taken out of me in the last 40 years'

He was the greatest cricketer the world has ever known. He was also one of the greatest enigmas. Sir Donald Bradman was a fiercely private man, but from 1953 to 1977 he faithfully maintained a lively correspondence with his close friend and confidant Rohan Rivett, the charismatic editor of The News in Adelaide.

The Private Don is an anatomy of the friendship between these two remarkable men - a friendship defined by cricket and by family. Through their feisty exchanges on the game, their thoughts on the media and world affairs, their closely argued opinions on investments, their touching mutual support on personal matters and, always, their rare and treasured meetings over bottles of red, a side to Bradman is revealed that Australia has never seen before.

Compulsory reading for cricket fans as well as lovers of biography, this is an outstanding portrait of the price of fame, the joys of friendship, and the preoccupations of an extraordinary yet very ordinary man.

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Christine Wallace was born in Sydney in 1960 and grew up on Adelaide's Fleurieu Peninsula. She is a career journalist who has spent more than twenty years in and around federal politics. This has included a long tour of duty in the Canberra press gallery where she has worked for press and electronic media outlets including The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, Business Review Weekly and ABC TV. Christine is currently a contributing writer for The Weekend Australian Magazine, and is the proprietor of Canberra bar Das Kapital. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics and history from the ANU, a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Sydney and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.