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Winner of the 2020 National Biography Award and the 2020 NSW Premier?s Non-Fiction Award.The oddly compelling story of a man regarded as Australia?s worst prime minister.William McMahon was a significant, if widely derided and disliked, figure in Australian politics in the second half of the twentieth century. This biography tells the story of his life, his career, and his doomed attempts to recast views of his much-maligned time as Australia?s prime minister.After a long ministerial career under Menzies, McMahon became treasurer under Harold Holt, and fought a fierce, bitter war over protectionism with John McEwen. Following Holt?s death in 1967, McEwen had his revenge by vetoing McMahon?s candidature for the Liberal Party?s leadership, and thus paved the way for John Gorton to become prime minister. But almost three years later, amid acrimony and division, McMahon would topple Gorton and fulfill his life?s ambition to become Australia?s prime minister.In office, McMahon worked .
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