The Unmaking of Gough

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The Unmaking of Gough is the story of the most dramatic and extraordinary eighteen months in Australian political history. Paul Kelly draws upon his personal conversations with the main players at the time to tell this compelling story. Kelly deals with the loans affair, the Cairns sacking, Malcolm Fraser's overthrow of Bill Snedden, the 1975 constitutional crisis and the dismissal of the Whitlam government. This is a story of power, intrigue and events almost beyond belief.

'.essential for detail. the best buy as permanent record.' - Humphrey McQueen

'Of the books, the one which to my mind puts the fairest construction on the course of events is Kelly's.' - Professor Geoffrey Sawer

'Paul Kelly's is the reference we keep going back to.' - Peter Bowers

'Kelly's book stretches back further and provides a much fuller picture of the Liberals. He is also more even-handed.' - Michelle Grattan

Author Bio

During the past decade, Paul Kelly has been Australia's pre-eminent political writer. He was worked in Canberra as chief political writer for The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald and the National Times in a career spanning the Whitlam, Fraser and Hawke eras. He is the author of The Hawke Ascendancy (1984) and The End of Certainty (1992; revised edition published 1994), the latter completing the trilogy.

Paul Kelly left Canberra in late 1991 to become Eidtor-in-Chief of The Australian. He is married with two sons.