The Wit Of Whitlam

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 224 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Self-proclaimed international treasure Gough Whitlam never shied away from a pun, a put-down or a witticism. In this collection of quotes, stories and famous witty remarks, James Carleton, radio presenter and founder of the university club The Dewy-Eyed Whitlamites, presents a keepsake of Goughisms that vindicates the Great Mans self-assessment: I never said I was immortal, merely eternal. His wife Margaret was his best appointment, he called Malcolm Fraser Kerrs cur after the Dismissal and when Sir Winton Turnbull called out in parliament I am a country member, Gough interjected I remember. When it was suggested he was funny, Gough responded: Funny! Funny Witty, yes. Epigrammatic perhaps, but not funny. You make me sound like a clown.

ISBN: 9780522868081