David Marr: 20 books
by David Marr
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Panic (noun). A sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour.
Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you'll uncover an extraordinary level of fear.
Cronulla. Henson. Hanson. Wik. Haneef. The boats.
Panic...
The Prince
Faith, Abuse and George Pell
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
David Marr’s explosive bestseller, now expanded and updated.
The leading Catholic in the nation and spiritual adviser to Tony Abbott, Cardinal George Pell has played a key role in the greatest challenge to face his church for centuries: the scandal of child sex abuse by priests.
In...
Quarterly Essay 59 Faction Man
Bill Shorten's Path to Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
The top job is within Bill Shorten’s grasp. But who is he? How did he rise to become Labor leader? And does he have what it takes to beat Malcolm Turnbull and lead the country? In this dramatic essay, David Marr traces the hidden career of a Labor warrior. He shows how a brilliant recruiter and formidable...
Quarterly Essay 38 Power Trip
The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Power Trip shows the making of Kevin Rudd, prime minister. In Eumundi, where Rudd was born, David Marr investigates the formative tragedy of his life: the death of his father and what came after. He tracks the transformation of a dreamy kid into an implacably determined youth, already set on the prime...
Political Animal
The Making of Tony Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Winner of the 2013 John Button Prize The essential work on Tony Abbott is now an expanded, updated short book – and a crucial election-year companion. Australians want to know: what kind of man is Tony Abbott, and how would he perform as prime minister? In this dramatic portrait, David Marr shows...
Quarterly Essay 26 His Master's Voice
The Corruption of Public Debate Under Howard
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
John Howard has the loudest voice in Australia. He has cowed his critics, muffled the press, intimidated the ABC, gagged scientists, silenced NGOs, censored the arts, prosecuted leakers, criminalised protest and curtailed parliamentary scrutiny. Though touted as a contest of values, this has been a party-political...
Quarterly Essay 47 Political Animal
The Making of Tony Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Tony Abbott is the most successful Opposition leader of the last forty years, but he has never been popular. Now Australians want to know: what kind of man is he, and how would he perform as prime minister?In this dramatic portrait, David Marr shows that as a young Catholic warrior at university, Abbott...
Faction Man
Bill Shorten's Pursuit of Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
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...
Vision
A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Available again, an influential book that offers a framework for understanding visual perception and considers fundamental questions about the brain and its functions.
David Marr's posthumously published Vision (1982) influenced a generation of brain and cognitive scientists, inspiring many...
Quarterly Essay 65 The White Queen
One Nation and the Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation.
In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia’s politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality?...
Quarterly Essay 51 The Prince
Faith, Abuse and George Pell
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
The leading Catholic in the nation and spiritual adviser to Tony Abbott, Cardinal George Pell has played a key role in the greatest challenge to face his church for centuries: the scandal of child sex abuse by priests.
In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man and his career: how did he...
My Country
Stories, Essays & Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
David Marr is the rarest of breeds: one of Australia’s most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr’s hands, those things we call reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time.
My...
The Prince
Faith, Abuse and George Pell
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2020
David Marr’s explosive bestseller, now expanded and fully updated.
In March this year, the nation’s most powerful Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, was jailed for child sexual assault. In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man, his career and his ultimate fall. Marr reveals a cleric...
Asperger's
A Literal Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
We all know people popularly described as “on the spectrum” - people who have Aspergers Syndrome. In this memoir, David vividly and clearly describes what that means: in the home, in schoolyards, in classrooms, in the work place and in a love relationship. And the reader learns from the inside out.
-Susan Bergman
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