About the Author

Allan Martin taught at the universities of New South Wales, Melbourne and Adelaide, and became a professor of history at La Trobe University in 1966. When senior fellow in history at the Australian National University, a position held until his retirement. He died June 2002.

Reviews

"A lucid, graceful, wonderfully fair-minded and absorbingly detailed narrative of Australia's most significant public man." --"Times Literary Supplement"

"A superb and engrossing biography of Menzies." --"The Age"