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Ringwood East, Victoria: Viking, 1988. 600 g; VI, 266 pages, indexed, and illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs within the text. Photographic illustrated dust jacket. Slight trace of dustiness to the top edge of the text block, otherwise in very good condition. From his days as a young Trotskyist in the 1940s, -- secretly in love with an enemy Stalinist -- to his role in the 80s as commissioner in an enquiry into the Maralinga nuclear tests,, Jim McClelland has been known as a stirrer. In his autobiography he offers us a perspective of Australian politics that spans 50 years. His critical assessment of public figures is both humourous and acerbic and includes insight into characters such as Robert Menzies, Lionel Murphy, John Kerr and Neville Wran. -- front fold over blurb. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illus. by Photographic. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Biography -- Legal.