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benjaminharrisonofficial's review
5.0
Something I like about this book - and which is also true of the same author's biography of John Curtin - is that it doesn't give a great deal of special weight to Chifley's time as prime minister, at least as far as page count is concerned. Where most biographers would dedicate the bulk of the book to Chifley's role in the commonwealth Labor government of 1941 to 1949, first as wartime treasurer and then as prime minister, Day has looked at the complete man. This is a biography in the true sense of the word, rather than just being an account of a couple of jobs the subject held with a few childhood anecdotes sprinkled at the start. Very good, I thought.
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