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1. 1. The Enigmatic Mr Deakin

   

   A portrait of Alfred Deakin, Australia’s second prime minister, tracing his central role in Federation and early nation-building across three nonconsecutive terms while revealing the private spiritual seeker behind the public statesman. Drawing on diaries and correspondence, it highlights his eloquence and tactical skill, his collaborations and rivalries, and the legislative foundations he helped lay in areas such as tariff protection, industrial arbitration, and the High Court, while confronting the contradictions of his support for White Australia. It presents a conscientious yet elusive leader whose idealism, exhaustion, and personal complexity left a lasting imprint on the nation’s political culture.