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...biographies, have been either journalists academics, Holt's biographer, Tom Frame, has a very different occupation. He is the Anglican Bishop to the Australian Defence Forces. Ben Chifley had the view that journalists should write political biography on the basis that politicians are too subjective and academics too remote from the real world of politics. One assumes that Chifley would place Frame's occupation in the "too remote" category.
The path that led Frame to write about Holt is an unusual one. His interest in Australia's seventeenth prime minister arose from researching the Voyager disaster. Perhaps oddly for someone who, in relation to Voyager, believes that Holt "misjudged a looming public controversy", Frame approached this biography seeking to redress what he sees as "unfair personal and professional denigration of the late Prime Minister". In his opinion, the unfair denigration resulted from two things--the "all the way with LBJ" comment and the manner of Holt's death.
Frame draws the obvious conclusion...
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