Phillip Adams A Man of Ideas A Life Revealed eBook Philip Luker
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“He’s been around the media for decades, he looks more like a priest than a radio jock, he talks proper, he has an amazingly retentive memory, he’s accessibly cerebral, he wears his biases on his skivvy, he polarizes opinion and opinion-makers, he applies historical perspective to his views and discussions, he attracts by far the most significant interview subjects from around the globe to his program, he probes and banters with them as an equal, he gets himself properly briefed on the detail, he gives his subjects time and space to be discursive and therefore, often, illuminating, he breaks all the rules of talk radio, he is an Australian institution and an international-calibre broadcaster who would distinguish the airwaves of any radio station anywhere. He is Phillip Adams.”
Eric Beecher in The Reader in December 2003
Most media people come and go quickly but Phillip Adams is a survivor. John Howard tried to get rid of him and failed. He has a weekly radio audience of about 350,000, plus his Weekend Australian Magazine readers. In this book, he describes his relationship with eight Australian prime ministers, including Bob Hawke, who told the author Adams is often a pain in the arse, and Paul Keating, who said Adams ‘paints in pre-cooked synonyms’.
Adams hypnotizes women (especially) with his intellect, and he is an enigma. This book reveals many hilarious anecdotes and examples of his brilliant mind.
Few Australian journalists have been as prolific as Adams. He has written about three million words in books, newspapers and magazines; and he’s spoken many more words than that as host of Late Night Live, four nights a week for twenty years. But these words don’t describe his personal regrets or indicate his weaknesses. They hint at his joys but don’t provide the details.
In spite of this background, he has never published an autobiography. More surprising, for a man whose hallmark is the conversation interviews, is his reluctance to speak prospective biographers.
Despite leaving school at fifteen, Adams is confortable conversing with academics, authors and other experts on subjects ranging from wombats to nuclear science.
Along the way, Phillip Adams has crossed paths and occasionally come to blows with some of Australia’s most prominent people politicians, ad-men, film directors, business leaders, broadcasters and media tycoons. The list reads like a who’s who of Australia – and includes former prime ministers Paul Keating and Bob Hawke, current and past state premiers Mike Rann, Anna Bligh, Carmen Lawrence, John Cain and Bob Carr, psychologist Hugh Mackay; Cartoonist Bruce Petty; ex-Age publisher Ranald McDonald; film and television director Peter Faiman; actor Barry Humphries. Composer Peter Best; media tycoons Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch and many, many more – an extraordinarily diverse list, reflecting the life of this unique Australian.
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Any illusions that the end of the war might signal the return to a more normal family life were quickly shattered. ‘My mother dumped my father when he came home during the war,’ he said, ‘and my father was thrown out
of the Church because he had a drinking problem. I have terrible memories of being dragged around one day by my mother, the next day by my father, and being told I would have to go to court. There, a judge would ask me which of my parents I wanted to live with — a terrible question.
‘My mother told me, “You’re going to choose me,” and my father told me, “You’re going to choose me.” I remember the feeling of desperation. How could a child make such a decision? Children are still being asked that question. The decision was made for me I stayed with my grandparents until I was nine or ten. But as Grandpa Bill grew old and ill, he and Maude had to sell their farm.
To complete the picture of his David Copperfield childhood, Adams described how his grandparents were swindled out of their land by a Uriah Heep-like businessman...
Phillip Adams A Man of Ideas A Life Revealed eBook Philip Luker
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Phillip Adams A Man of Ideas A Life Revealed eBook Philip Luker Reviews
This reads like a cobbled together cut and paste job. There is very little flow to the text and quite a lot of editorialising. People interviewed for the book have been quoted, which is fine, but then their words are repeated almost verbatim on the same page or within the chapter, which really adds nothing. I was hoping for a level of analysis but I found very little. There is some interesting information included but I skim read a lot of the book so I could pick out what caught my eye and avoid having to read too much of the writing.
Interesting story of an interesting man. Helps you understand the reasoning of a very clever individual. Wort a read that's for sure
loved the book very interesting and informative especially if one is interested in Australia and Philip Adams, well done Philip Luker
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