The second instalment of David Day’s biography of Bob Hawke, which chronicles the public and private lives of Labor’s longest-serving prime minister, is as masterful, gritty and in many ways as disturbing as the first.
The first, Young Hawke: The Making of a Larrikin, traced his life from birth through his unconventional upbringing, student days in Australia and Oxford, and his rise as a unionist amid eventual national expectation he’d one day become prime minister.
