Medium Hardback with Dustjacket, Near New Condition, 1997, 258 pages, ISBN 1 86448 404 7

Whitlam to Winston – Barry Cohen

Life from Whitlam to Howard

And it came to pass in those days that a boy child was born in Earlwood. And verily the parents did name him Winston after a great leader. John Winston Howard…

In the beginning there was the Word, and the word was Gough, and as far as we were concerned he did not have ministers, he had apostles. We weren’t voters, we were disciples. And his weren’t policies, they were miracles.

With his ear to the ground, tongue firmly in cheek and chuckle button jammed at ‘on’, Barry Cohen has followed his prey into Parliament’s sideshow alley. There he meets a motley crew of raconteurs and wicked wits, ludicrous poseurs and simple souls who love a good laugh – from both sides of politics and the general public.

From the sawdust, Barry has retrieved an hilarious gathering of stories, from the risible to the bizarre.

That great fixer and numbers man, the Hon, Graham Richardson, once confessed that political power was ‘better than sex and almost as good as a good feed’. To which Barry Cohen adds ‘and often much funnier’.