ROSS FITZGERALD
 

THE YOUNG MENZIES
Success, Failure, Resilience 1894–1942
edited by Zachary Gorman.
Melbourne University Press, 2022
224 pages, $49.95
    After a brilliant career at the Melbourne bar in the 1920s and a period as Victoria’s Attorney-General, Sir Robert Gordon Menzies eventually became the most towering federal parliamentarian ever seen in Australian politics. But up to now, few books, even including Allan Martin’s magisterial two-volume biography, published in 1993 and 1999 respectively, have dealt in any length or clarity with Menzies childhood, personality, and early adulthood.
The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, …

Professor Ross Fitzgerald’s speech at the launch of My Last Drink: 32 Stories of Recovering Alcoholics,$29.95, published by Connor Court in Brisbane. My Last Drink is also available from Amazon and Booktopia.
The Olsen Gallery, Woollahra, Sydney, 6pm Tuesday 21 February 2023.
It’s very good to be here tonight, Tim. Indeed, at my age it’s very good to be anywhere!
My Last Drink: 32 Stories of Recovering Alcoholics is edited by me and my long-term buddy, Neal Price, who is with us from Tasmania. We are 53 and 39 years sober respectively. Our third speaker is Gail …