Perth & The Big Sleep: and other essays

A collection of lively essays by the author about his home town as well other areas of life, both on a social as well political front. Including... essays on many of the critical figures of the age, ranging from the politics of Richard Nixon to Nancy Reagan; Mao to Mikhail Gorbachev; Dick Cheney to Donald Rumsfeld; Henry Kissinger to Bill Clinton. As capturing the current zeitgeist with some very sharp literary observations of the current social climate constructed by economic climate of the last 4 decades. This is a well written book you must have ''A genuine page-turner, essays full of intimacies reflections and a deep abiding love of politics & history and the grand machinations involved'' -anon."A thoroughly fine read" -Mitchel McDonaughy ''A must read'' -P.Thompson