My Brilliant Career: Malcolm Turnbull: a political life, in cartoons

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My Brilliant Career is an unauthorised, unbalanced, and scatological political biography of Malcolm Turnbull - presently Prime Minister of Australia.

Over the years, there have been many Malcolms on view: the ambitious international lawyer; the smart merchant banker; the driven president of the Australian Republican Movement; the arrogant and narcissistic leadership aspirant; the brutal executioner of Brendan Nelson; a leader capable of the spectacular miscalculation and hubris of Utegate; the sparkly, independent, ironic, leather-jacketed wit on Q&A; and the cabinet minister biding his time while proclaiming loyalty to his leader.

And now, as prime minister, the great question is, can he remould the Liberal Party in his own image, and return it to its more classical liberal roots - as many on all sides of politics hope - or will he be so compromised by fear of a disaffected conservative backbench that everyone loses faith in him?

This book follows Turnbull's extraordinary roller-coaster career through the eyes of our finest political cartoonists. Who better than our sharpest observers of the political scene, whose job is to ridicule the pompous, puncture bloated egos, cut through the spin, and strip bare the carefully contrived personas who inhabit modern politics?

With an introduction and commentary by Russ Radcliffe, My Brilliant Career is filled with observations on political life from the man himself, quotes - fawning and scurrilous - from his fans and enemies, and choice examples of the satirical genius of Dean Alston, Pat Campbell, Andrew Dyson, John Farmer, First Dog on the Moon, Matt Golding, Fiona Katauskas, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka, Bill Leak, Alan Moir, Peter Nicholson, Bruce Petty, David Pope, David Rowe, John Spooner, Ron Tandberg, and Cathy Wilcox, to name a few.