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Few Australians know the name of their first Prime Minister, yet without Edmund Barton Australia might not have become a Commonwealth in 1901. Engaging and thoroughly researched, this biography is the first in fifty years to examine the life of this inspiring Australian.This is the story of how an easy-going Sydney politician, with a reputation for enjoying the pleasures of the table and a fondness for cricket, became possessed by one enduring enthusiasm. That passion, maintained across almost two decades, was to make a new country from a collection of British colonies.How did Edmund Barton, although only one of many who contributed to the federal cause, come to be regarded as its actual and symbolic leader? In the company of figures like Henry Parkes, Samuel Griffith, George Reid and Alfred Deakin, Barton was by no measure the most flamboyant or forceful of these campaigners. So what led the supporters of Federation to acknowledge the man caricatured in the press as 'Tosspot Toby' as the necessary man, 'the one man for the job' of the first prime minister of the Commonwealth of Australia?Starting as a struggling young Sydney lawyer, blooded in the turbulent politics of colonial Ne

Who reads Edmund Barton : the one man for the job?

Author

Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton

Publisher

Allen & Unwin Academic; Allen & Unwin

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781865084091

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir