Recollections of a Bleeding Heart

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In January 1992, less than a month after Paul Keating became Prime Minister, Don Watson was employed as his speechwriter. Though trained in history rather than economics and generally regarded as a 'bleeding heart liberal', he became a close advisor and friend. Based on notes Watson kept through the four turbulent and exhausting years he spent with Keating, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart is a frank, revealing and engrossing portrait of this brilliant and perplexing man, and a unique reflection on modern politics, government and Australia itself.