It is usual for politicians to conceal their beliefs, but Bob Carr says what he thinks - with clarity, passion, elegance, wit and commanding logic.
On literature, nature, art and public affairs, on Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, the bush, the beach, the Olympic Games, the meaning of history, the failure of socialism, heroin, migration, depression, patriotism, he writes from the unique perspective of a head of government who must wrestle daily with forces that shape and alter human lives.
A book for all concerned with where we have come from and where we are going, in Australia, and in the modern world.
