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Edmund Barton / Geoffrey Bolton.

By: Publication details: St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2000.Description: xiii, 385 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1865084093 :
Other title:
  • Title on dustjacket: Edmund Barton : the one man for the job
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 994.041092 21
LOC classification:
  • DU116.2.B37 B64 2000
Summary: This is how an easy-going Sydney politician, with a reputation for enjoying the pleasures of the table and a fondness for cricket, became possessed by an enduring passion to a make a new country from a collection of British colonies, and became Australia's first prime minister.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item reserves
Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Biography 994.041 BOL Available 059063
Total reserves: 0

On cover: The one man for the job.

Includes bibliography (p. 370-375) and index.

This is how an easy-going Sydney politician, with a reputation for enjoying the pleasures of the table and a fondness for cricket, became possessed by an enduring passion to a make a new country from a collection of British colonies, and became Australia's first prime minister.

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