The (almost) Complete Gough

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The man can't help it. Self-parody, sending up other peoples' expectations, a love of the absurd...Gough's still going strong. To mark another birthday, this book brings together "Life With Gough" and the best of "Whitlam to Winston" with some additional Gough stories to present a bumper edition of The Complete (almost!) Gough. So, once again, here's a larger-than-life Australian, infuriatingly high-falutin' and bizarrely prurient, inflating himself above politics, enjoying himself hugely at the expense of the mean-spirited, the pompous, the ingratiating, the serious and the dull. Barry Cohen has observed Gough Whitlam closely for almost 30 years, for 21 of those years (1969-90) as a Member of Parliament, and for four as a Minister for the Arts, Heritage and the Environment (in the first and second Hawke Governments). He is the author/compiler of "Life with Gough", "Whitlam to Winston" "The Yartz" and "What About the Workers".

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'Here is an agreeable and welcome mix of irreverence, wit and absurdity. Here is captured some of the moods and interests that had tenancy in the Whitlam mind - the imperious, the classical, the historical, the rompish, the waggish and the outrageously provocative.' James Killen 'Anyone who has ever struggled to suppress mirth during a church service understands the pleasure to be found in sharing Barry Cohen's witty, irreverent but affectionate anecdotes. Don't tell Gough.' The Hon Kim Beazley

Author Bio

Barry Cohen has observed Gough Whitlam closely for almost 30 years, for 21 of those years (1969-90) as a member of parliament, and for four as a Minister for the Arts, Heritage and the Environment (in the first and second Hawke Governments). He is the author/compiler of Life with Gough, Whitlam to Winston, The Yartz and most recently What About the Workers. Barry has been a columnist for The Bulletin and The Australian, and has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, Melbourne Herald and Time. He has also been an intermittent radio commentator. The Complete Gough is his eighth book.