Hawke PM: The Making of a Legend by David Day Biography, HarperCollins, $49.99 Part two of David Day’s biography of Bob Hawke, chronicling his years as Labor’s longest-serving prime minister, is no less forensic and revealing than the first instalment which traced him from birth to the precipice of the top job. Hawke, given all the reform that he and his long-serving (and -suffering) treasurer Paul Keating oversaw is rightly remembered as a “great” prime minister – a “legend”, as Day puts it. He quit the grog. And apparently gave up the women. But Day reveals a PM beset by...
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