Volume LIII Number 10
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Books
Forward Pragmatically
Battlelines, by Tony Abbott, Melbourne University Press, 2009, $34.99.
Tony Abbott opens his book with a prologue putting the case that Liberals should write more books. Authorship is a risky undertaking for any politician. Public humiliation is part and parcel of political life, and finding one’s opus in the Angus & Robertson two-dollar bin must prick even the toughest of hides, but by all accounts this book is selling well and is unlikely to be remaindered.
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