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Rather His Own Man

✍ Scribed by Robertson, Geoffrey

Book ID: 110466069
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Weight: 7 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780143784098

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✦ Synopsis

In this witty, engrossing and sometimes poignant memoir, a sequel to his best-selling The Justice Game, Australia's inimitable Geoffrey Robertson charts his progress from pimply state schoolboy to top Old Bailey barrister and thence onwards and upwards to a leading role in the struggle for human rights throughout the world.
He wryly observes the absurdities of growing up as one of 'Ming's kids'; the passion of student protest in the sixties and his early crusades for 'Down Under-dogs', before leaving on a Rhodes Scholarship to combat the British establishment, with the help of John Mortimer of 'Rumpole' fame. There are dramatic accounts of fighting for lives on death rows, freeing dissidents and taking on tyrants, armed only with a unique mind and a passion for justice - on display whenever he boomeranged back to Australia to conduct Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals.
His is an amazing life story of David and Goliath battles - riveting, laugh-out-loud tales...

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