In his path-breaking 'The Lucky Country' Donald Horne wrote a text for the times as they seemed in the age of Robert Gordon Menzies. In 'Looking For Leadership' he writes of the distractions and quandaries of ordinary Australians at a time when political leadership has drifted away to languish in what he calls John Howard's Dreamtime.
In a unique presentation of Australians as people of great potential waiting to resume history, Horne gives a masterly picture of a prime minister lost in events in a society rich in possibilities.
'Looking For Leadership' is a multi-layered book, a mixture of astute analysis and warm personal recollection. It is energising and forward-looking, informed and informative, written with human sympathy, wit and intellectual bite by one of Australia's most respected social commentators.
