Synopsis: A collection of the words that Robert Kennedy used to move others, and the words of others that moved Robert Kennedy.
My Take: Compiled by RFK’s ninth child (!), “Make Gentle The Life of This World” is a delicious combination of extracts from Robert Kennedy’s own speeches and a selection of passages from a daybook [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Quotes'
“Make Gentle The Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy
July 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · American, History, Non-Fiction, Politics, Quotes, The Kennedys
"Shut Up and Listen and You Might Learn Something", Edna Carew and Patrick Cook
June 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Australian, Non-Fiction, Politics, Quotes
Synopsis: The bite and bile of the greatest Treasurer Australia has ever had.
My Take: Published in 1990, this collection of Keating quotations comes from the golden era of PJK. The period before he became PM and was forced to moderate (at least to some extent) his more extreme instincts for public, rhetorical bloodshed.
Most of the [...]
"Joh Speak", Alan Price, Elizabeth Hancock and Erik Scholz
June 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Australian, Non-Fiction, Politics, Queensland, Quotes
Synopsis: Collection of wit and wisdom from The Best Premier Queensland has ever had ™, Joh Bjelke-Petersen. Don’t laugh – Peter Beattie was still making pilgrimages to Bethany two election cycles ago…
My Take: Much like Joh himself, there’s nothing fancy to this book, just a collection of The Flying Peanut’s more memorable quotes. It did [...]
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"Safire's Political Dictionary", William Safire
June 16th, 2009 · No Comments · American, Non-Fiction, Politics, Quotes, Unfinished
Synopsis: A founding member of the US conservative intelligensia and former Nixon speech-writer pens a fastidiously researched, dry witted and very smart dictionary of political language. Why can’t Australian conservative intellectuals be as clever as this?
My Take: Safire is a member of that class of US conservatives whose ranks have been purged to the point [...]
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