The Latham Diaries (by Mark Latham)

• 2005 edition,  429 pages
• Published by Melbourne University Press, Australia
• Hardcover with dust jacket, black boards
• Very good condition, minor edge wear to dust jacket, some marks on free front end paper

Index included

Here are the political diaries of one of Australia's most promising national leaders  - published within twelve months of his resignation from office  - an historic first.   The Latham Diaries are searingly honest bulletins from the front line of Labor politics.  They provide a unique view into the life of a man, the Party and the nation at a crucial time in Australian history.

In The Latham Diaries, Mark Latham has written the story of the ALP and in so doing he has also written our story as Australian citizens.  

The Latham Diaries is not just the story of the Labor Party in the last years of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, but a sobering account of the state of Australian democracy 100 years after Federation.

So why did his career end so abruptly?  As this book reveals, the rising tide of public cynicism about politics, the cult of celebrity, the dangerous liaison between politics and the media, and the sickness at the heart of the Labor machine all played their part.  As did Latham's own errors, as he candidly records in these diaries.