TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walker,Ross
TI  - Harold Holt: always one step further 
SN  - 9781760643836 (pbk.)
U1  - 994.06092 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Collingwood, VIC
PB  - La Trobe University Press in conjunction with Black Inc
KW  - Holt, Harold,
KW  - Holt, Harold Edward,
KW  - Prime ministers
KW  - Australia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-310) and index
N2  - Harold Holt was a pivotal prime minister in Australian history. Ambitious, modern and telegenic, he helped bring his party and nation into the late twentieth century, following the Menzies years. Nowhere was Holt's legacy more significant than in the 1967 referendum, and in helping to end the White Australia policy. At the same time, as the Vietnam War raged, Holt dramatically increased Australian troops, telling President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 that Australia was 'all the way with LBJ'. In this evocative, intimate and deeply researched biography, Ross Walker captures the worlds in which Holt moved and the people who were close to him. He reveals a popular, gentle, yet at times self-destructive man, whose tendency to always go one step further would have fatal consequences. This is a strikingly original portrait of Australia's seventeenth prime minister
ER  -