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Title: When We Were Young & Foolish: A Memoir of My Misguided Youth With Tony Abbott, Bob Carr & Kevin Rudd
Author: SHERIDAN GREG
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/08/2015
Imprint: ALLEN & UNWIN
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
By chance, Greg Sheridan’s early life saw him become intimate friends and colleagues with a fascinating list of people who now make up Australia’s political leadership. At university Tony Abbott was his best friend; he became close to Peter Costello as well as Labor figures Michael Danby and Michael Easson. As a young journalist on The Bulletin he became friends and colleagues with Bob Carr and Malcolm Turnbull. When he first joined The Australian he was posted to China, there to befriend another future leader, Kevin Rudd…When We Were Young and Foolish traces Greg’s own journey from impoverished childhood in Sydney’s inner west, on to his formative years at university and then The Bulletin, and in doing so also illuminates the formative years and experiences of his friends would who go on to be prime ministers, premiers and senior cabinet ministers. It offers new and personal insights into the people they were as students and twenty-somethings, and the events, philosophies, demons and relationships that helped make them the people they are.
ISBN: 9781760113391
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
Pages: 384