{"product_id":"run-for-your-life-signed-bob-carr-9780522875294","title":"Run for Your Life (Signed by Bob Carr)","description":"\u003ci\u003eAll author proceeds from this book are donated to help the children displaced by the Syrian civil war by funding humanitarian aid through the registered charity Australia for UNHCR.\u003c\/i\u003e Most political memoirs are boring. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bob Carr tears up the rules. He plunges in, beginning with the despair of a young man pining for a political career, convinced he's going nowhere, then vaulting to the exhilaration of a premier who, on one day, saves a vast forest and unveils the country's best curriculum. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He lashes himself for ignoring a cry from a prisoner in a cell and for a breach of protocol with a US Supreme Court judge. He considers talking to the leader of a notorious rape gang and celebrates winning power against the odds: a leader without kids or any interest in sport. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He describes growing up in a fibro house without sewerage and a 'lousy education' that produced a lifetime appetite for self-learning. He is candid about dealing with the media, dining with royals, working for Kerry Packer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He reveals the secrets he learnt from Neville Wran. He is open about his adulation of Gough Whitlam. Floating above all is Bob Carr's idea of public service in a party, he says, that resembles an old, scarred, barnacled whale. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In an era of bland politicians, here's one with personality true to his quirky self. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Silence the jet skis! Balance the budget! Liberate the dolphins! Roll out the toll roads! Declare a million hectares of eucalypt wilderness! Be a politician of character. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bob Carr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0522875297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780522875294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Melbourne University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Bob Carr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48658898813183,"sku":"9780522875294","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/run-for-your-life-signed-bob-carr-9780522875294","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}