The brilliant boy : Doc Evatt and the great Australian dissent / Gideon Haigh
- Bib ID:
- 8595853
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Haigh, Gideon, author
- Description:
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- Cammeray, NSW : Simon & Schuster (Australia), 2021
- ©2021
- 378 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781760856113 (hardback)
- Summary:
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In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven year-old immigrant boy drowned in a ditch that had filled with rain after being left unfenced by council workers. How the law should deal with the trauma of the family’s loss was one of the most complex and controversial cases to reach Australia’s High Court, where it seized the imagination of its youngest and cleverest member. These days, ‘Doc’ Evatt is remembered mainly as the hapless and divisive opposition leader during the long ascendancy of his great rival Sir Robert Menzies. Yet long before we spoke of ‘public intellectuals’, Evatt was one: a dashing advocate, an inspired jurist, an outspoken opinion maker, one of our first popular historians and the nation’s foremost champion of modern art. Through Evatt’s innovative and empathic decision in Chester v the Council of Waverley Municipality, which argued for the law to acknowledge inner suffering as it did physical injury, Gideon Haigh rediscovers the most brilliant Australian of his day, a patriot with a vision of his country charting its own path and being its own example – the same attitude he brought to being the only Australian president of the UN General Assembly, and instrumental in the foundation of Israel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- Evatt, H. V. 1894-1965. (Herbert Vere)
- United Nations -- Officials and employees, Australian -- Biography
- Historians -- Australia -- Biography
- Statesmen -- Australia -- Biography
- Foreign ministers -- Australia -- Biography
- Cabinet officers -- Australia -- Biography
- Judges -- Australia -- Biography
- Biography: general
- Australia -- Foreign relations -- 20th century
- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Australian
- Genre/Form:
- Biographies
- Copyright:
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