Both highly readable and carefully researched, Keeper of the Faith reassesses the part Jim Cairns played in shaping Australian public life.
Dr Paul Strangio describes himself as one of the new breed of academic nomads. He has taught Australian politics and history at Deakin University, Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria University of Technology and Monash University. He is the author of No Toxic Dump!: Contesting Corporate and Government Power (2001) and co-editor, with Peter Love, of Arguing the Cold War (2001). He is a regular radio commentator on politics, and contributor to Australia's leading literary and political magazines.
"A persuasive exposition of Cairns's career and interests in
ideas--an exposition at once analytical, sceptical and insightful.
Strangio's talent for narrative makes this volume very readable."
--The Canberra Times
"This admiring biography does full justice to its subject. Or as
some would say, more than justice... Strangio's account is brought
off with measured detachment and a certain sardonic humour...
Scrupulously fair and gracefully written, Strangio's book bears
comparison with the best Australian political biography... Srangio
has paid (Cairns) the ultimate compliment of taking him as
seriously as he took himself." --The Australian
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