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Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Pursuit of Power

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Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Pursuit of Power

In Faction Man, David Marr traces the career of a Labor warrior. In dazzling style, he shows how this brilliant recruiter and formidable campaigner mastered first the unions and then the party in pursuit of an ambition he set himself in childhood: to be Prime Minister of Australia.

Bill Shorten is now a contender. But where do his loyalties lie? Is he a defender of Labor values in todayâ€™s Australia, or is he a shape-shifter, driven entirely by politics? And does this product of the old world of union intrigue have what it takes to defeat Malcolm Turnbull and lead the country?

Marr reveals a man we hardly know: the Napoleon of the factions, a virtuoso with numbers and a strategist of skill who Labor has backed to return the party to power.

â€˜David Marr is as brilliant a biographer and journalist as this country has producedâ€™ â€”Peter Craven, Spectator

David Marr is the author of Patrick White: A Life, Panic, The High Price of Heaven and Dark Victory (with Marian Wilkinson), as well as five bestselling Quarterly Essays. He has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Saturday Paper, the Guardian and the Monthly, and been editor of the National Times, a reporter for Four Corners and presenter of ABC TVâ€™s Media Watch.

Country	USA
Author	David Marr
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781925203929
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Black Inc.
Manufacturer	Black Inc.
NumberOfPages	208
PublicationDate	2016-05-14
Publisher	Black Inc.
ReleaseDate	2016-05-21
Studio	Black Inc.

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