On Writing Jim Cairns’ Biography

28 July 2020 thesumofpower On Biography 0

Paul Ormonde talks about his reasons for writing a biography of Dr Jim Cairns, Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia during the Whitlam Government 1972-195. Paul’s book, A Foolish Public Man was published in 1982.

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