James Button

Auteur van Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business

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James Button made the finalists for the $30,000 Best Writing Award, presented for `a piece of published or produced work of outstanding clarity, originality and creativity by a Victorian writer¿ with his title Speechless A Year in My father's Business. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business (2012) 32 exemplaren

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Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: Australia

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Patagonia door James Button

Perfectly awful.

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philcraigusa | Jul 10, 2023 |

Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business door James Button

A highly readable and often moving personal recollection of family life and Labor Party politics in recent Australian history.

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Michele48 | 2 andere besprekingen | Nov 26, 2014 |

Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business door James Button

James Button experienced a gentle midlife crisis. Instead of buying a red car and running away with his secretary he quit journalism and journeyed to Canberra, ostensibly to be Kevin Rudd's speechwriter. That did not work out and this book is the result. It rambles between topics such as the Australian Public Service, the Australian Labor Party and the author's father's long involvement with it. There is also a mixture of biography and autobiography. These topics are interesting but read more as a sequence of essays than as a coherent book. James Button changed career from journalism to public service (and later, grassroots ALP volunteer). Unfortunately, his public servant's circumspection overcame his journalist's need to reveal truth to the public. Even the biographical elements seem muted and restrained. As a consequence of this restraint, the book does not ultimately say much.… (meer)

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questbird | 2 andere besprekingen | Apr 3, 2013 |

Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business door James Button

Since I was attracted by the insider's point of view of the Kevin Rudd leadership style, I inevitably found the rest of Button's book underwhelming. My fault rather than his perhaps. I liked the sections about his short and unsuccessful attempts to write speeches for a Prime Minister who preferred to sit up until 3am writing his own. His autobiographical reflections were engaging too, but I found his account of life as a public servant rather turgid. Others may not, I suppose.

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PhilipJHunt | 2 andere besprekingen | Mar 31, 2013 |

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