Jenny Hocking Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year
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- August 14th, 2009
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Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History
Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History, the latest book from Professor Jenny Hocking, National Centre for Australian Studies, has been shortlisted for The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2009.
Comments from the judges stated:
“Biographies of the living are never easy, but Jenny Hocking’s first volume of the life of Gough Whitlam blends critical distance and sympathy with a complex figure who dominated Labor politics for a generation. This book is also a sharp, intelligent history of a dismal period of Australian public life. Whitlam’s triumph over Labor’s state machines was perhaps even more remarkable than his short-lived triumph over the electorate. The gradual transformation of his personality under the duress of leading Labor into office is one of the subtle achievements of this fine book”.
Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History is published by Miegunyah Press.
The winners of the awards will be announced at the opening night of the Melbourne Writers Festival on Friday 21 August.