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My Brilliant Career

Malcolm Turnbull: a political life, in cartoons
ed. Russ Radcliffe

‘With incredible economy, these cartoons reveal the essence of character, and the stark outline of political situations, in a way writers take thousands of words to do … Radcliffe lards My Brilliant Career with wonderful direct quotes from key political players.’

Chris Wallace, Sydney Morning Herald

My Brilliant Career is an unauthorised, unbalanced, and unlikely political biography of Malcolm Turnbull — presently Prime Minister of Australia — as seen through the eyes of Australia’s finest political cartoonists.

Who better to trace the extraordinary rollercoaster career of a man who has fascinated, charmed, dismayed, and disillusioned us in equal measure than our sharpest and most perceptive observers of the political scene.

With an introduction by Russ Radcliffe, My Brilliant Career is filled with observations on political life from the man himself, as well as quotes — fawning and scurrilous — from his fans and enemies, and choice examples of the satirical genius of Dean Alston, Pat Campbell, Andrew Dyson, First Dog on the Moon, Matt Golding, Fiona Katauskas, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka, Sean Leahy, Bill Leak, Eric Lobbecke, Reg Lynch, Alan Moir, Peter Nicholson, Bruce Petty, David Pope, Geoff Pryor, David Rowe, John Spooner, Ron Tandberg, Andrew Weldon, and Cathy Wilcox.

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Format:Paperback

Size: 200mm × 175mm

Extent:144pp

ISBN (13):9781925321722

RRP:$24.99

Pub date:16 May 2016

Rights Held: World

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Biography: historical, political & military BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political Political leaders & leadership Cartoons & comic strips POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Leadership HUMOR / Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Australian & Oceanian

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Russ Radcliffe

Russ Radcliffe created the annual Best Australian Political Cartoons series in 2003. His other books include: Man of Steel: a cartoon history of the Howard years in 2007; Dirt Files: a decade of Australian political cartoons in 2013; and My Brilliant Career: Malcolm Turnbull, a political life in cartoons in 2016.Russ has edited collections from some of Australia’s finest political cartoonists, including Matt Golding, Judy Horacek, Bill Leak, Alan Moir, Bruce Petty, John Spooner, and David Rowe, and curated several exhibitions, including Moments of Truth, Dirt Files, and Suppositories of Wisdom. In 2013, Russ was awarded the Australian Cartoonists Association’s Jim Russell Award for his contribution to Australian cartooning.

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