Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard; Quarterly Essay 28 - Couverture souple

Brett, Judith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1863951113 ISBN 13 : 9781863951111

Editeur : Quarterly Essay, 2007

Synopsis

In Exit Right, Judith Brett explains why the tide turned on John Howard. This is an essay about leadership, in particular Howard's style of strong leadership which led him to dominate his party with such ultimately catastrophic results.

In this definitive account, Brett discusses how age became Howard's Achilles heel, how he lost the youth vote, how he lost Bennelong, and how he waited too long to call the election. She looks at the government's core failings - the policy vacuum, the blindness to climate change, the disastrous misjudgment of WorkChoices - and shows how Howard and his team came more and more to insulate themselves from reality.

With drama and insight, Judith Brett traces the key moments when John Howard stared defeat in the face, and explains why, after the Keating-Howard years, the ascendancy of Kevin Rudd marks a new phase in the nation's political life.

"It is when a leader's grip on political power starts to slip, when his threats and bribes miss their mark, when he starts to make uncharacteristic mis- takes and when what had once been strengths reveal their limitations, that we can see most clearly the inner workings of that leadership. This essay is about John Howard's leadership, seen through the prism of its failings." Judith Brett, Exit Right

This issue contains correspondence relating to Reaction Time by Ian Lowe from Guy Pearse, Robert Merkel, Michael Angwin, Christine Milne, Mark Diesendorf, and Ian Lowe.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Judith Brett is Australia's leading authority on the Liberal Party. She is the author of Quarterly Essay 19, Relaxed and Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia, Robert Menzies' Forgotten People and Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard and a regular commentator for The Monthly. She is professor of politics at La Trobe University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Quarterly Essay
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1863951113
• ISBN 13: 9781863951111
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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