Robert Menzies, A Life: Volume 2 1944-1978

For each new generation of Australians, the name Robert Gordon Menzies resounds across the political landscape. No other federal politican this century can match his record period as Prime Minister, from 1949 to 1966. Not one of us is untouched by his life and work.

This long-awaited second volume of Allan Martin's unrivaled biography describes and analyses the flowering of policies and practices foretold in the first. Beginning with the birth of the Liberal Party at the end of World War I...