2019 Seymour Biography Lecture with Judith Brett - Completed
at Theatre, National Library of Australia
Thursday, 3 October 2019 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (AUS Eastern Standard Time) + Add to calendar03/10/2019 18:0003/10/2019 20:00Australia/Sydney2019 Seymour Biography Lecture with Judith Brett2019 Seymour Biography Lecture with Judith Brett
Thursday, 3 October 2019 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (AUS Eastern Standard Time)
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Public life, private man. Writing the biography of Alfred Deakin.
The core challenge of political biography is to answer the question, why politics? What inner needs did it fulfil, and what emotional and psychological resources were mustered for its accomplishment? These questions are harder to answer for Alfred Deakin than for less complex political leaders. Deakin was a gifted orator and successful politician who was a father of federation and Australia’s most significant Prime Minister until World War Two. Yet he was also a deeply private man with an intense intellectual and spiritual life who wondered often if politics was the right path for him. In the lecture I will discuss the tensions and synergies between Deakin’s public and private lives.
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