John Banks - A Biography

Outspoken and controversial by design, frequently attention-grabbing, a loose cannon who has sometimes embarrassed his colleagues and his leaders, a politician who shoots from the hip . . .

John Banks - 'Banksie' to his supporters - has seen the tide of his political fortunes ebb and flow over the years, but he has remained unshakeable in his beliefs. This authorised biography leaves no stone unturned to give a balanced and revealing portrait of a man whose parents were both convicted criminals.

From a farming foster family to his parents' nasty trade in Newton Gully, through the brash and lucrative years of the 1970s in which a fortune was won and held, to spectacular success on the hustings, a controversial time as a cabinet minister and an inflammatory career in talkback radio - Paul Goldsmith's book is a frank account of the life and times of John Banks, a politician whom even his detractors grudgingly admire.

- from the back cover.

Published by Penguin Books, 1997.
Faded spine, otherwise good secondhand condition.