Thoughtlines: Reflections of a Public Man

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 Olypmpic 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...