Wran – Mike Steketee and Milton Cockburn

Pre-loved book from 1986. Wear and tear to dust jacket and book overall, but in good condition. One for the political history buffs.

For ten turbulent years, one man dominated the public life of Australia’s most populous state New South Wales. In this unauthorised biography, two prominent political observers present a portrait of this man.

The “unauthorised” Neville Wran biography. Milton Cockburn was on the Premier’s staff for three years, Mike Steketee reported those years and others for the SMH. Wran ‘ruled’ for ten years and never lost an election, even a by-election – a turbulent decade. The story of his forceful premiership is a portrait of an era and the hidden political crunches and interplay and the names that went with it – candid, revealing