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...it's just politics analyses weak governance, unethical policy and misconduct in the Commonwealth of Australia over fifty years. At root is failure of leadership, whose foremost element is integrity. But compromise, expediency and ruthlessness are necessary to gain and retain political office and wield power, parties govern to benefit or appease constituencies, and governments naturally seek to hide their vulnerabilities and avoid accounta...

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In The Purpose of the Past, historian Gordon S. Wood examines this sea change in his field through consideration of some of its most important historians and their works. He offers wonderful insight into what great historians do, how they can stumble, and what strains of thought have dominated the marketplace of ideas in historical scholarship. The result is a history of American history, as well as an argument for its ongoing necessity.

In The Purpose of the Past, historian Gordon S. Wood examines the sea change in the field through consideration of some of its most important historians and their works. His book serves as both a history of American historyneither wholly a celebration nor a critiqueand an argument for its ongoing necessity.

In The Purpose of the Past, historian Gordon S. Wood examines this sea change in his field through consideration of some of its most important historians and their works. He offers wonderful insight into what great historians do, how they can stumble, and what strains of thought have dominated the marketplace of ideas in historical scholarship. The result is a history of American history, as well as an argument for its ongoing necessity.