Angela Woollacott is the Manning Clark Professor of History at the Australian National University and an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
'At last we have a comprehensive, balanced and well-judged treatment of Dunstan's life in all its dimensions' - Associate Professor Lionel Orchard, Flinders University 'One of the best biographies of an Australian politician that has been written' - Carol Johnson, Journal of Labour History '[Woollacott] tells [Dunstan's story] with authority and warmth. She is equally fluent at explaining the complexities of Dunstan's political world and painting colourful portraits of the man himself and the people who surrounded him.' The Saturday Paper 'Woollacott brings back into view the joy, the ambition, the derring-do of politics... May this book be read widely to show how it was done, against very high odds, and that done once, there is no reason why it cannot be done again.' Sydney Morning Herald