The Menzies Era
Sydney, Harper Collins Publishers, 2014 [first edition].
Thick octavo, [viii], 707 pages plus 24 pages of plates.
Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.
Inscribed and signed in ink on the title page by the author. John Winston Howard OM AC SSI (born 26 July 1939) was Australia's 25th Prime Minister 'from 11 March 1996 until 3 December 2007, the second-longest prime ministerial term after Robert Menzies. When he lost the seat of Bennelong in 2007, John Howard also became the second Australian prime minister to lose his seat, the first being Stanley Melbourne Bruce in 1929' (National Archives of Australia). He was Leader of the Liberal Party from 1985 to 1989, and again from 1995 to 2007.
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