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The Brilliant Boy
- Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent
- By: Gideon Haigh
- Narrated by: Gideon Haigh
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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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.
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Great book
- By Kerryn Smith on 04-23-23
- The Brilliant Boy
- Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent
- By: Gideon Haigh
- Narrated by: Gideon Haigh
Great book
Reviewed: 04-23-23
A great biography, not just of Evatt but of one of the most difficult periods of Australian history- between the wars and its aftermath. The author blends his career, judgements, relationships and politics in a way that displays his empathy, courage, brilliance, ego and deep personal flaws.
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