Review

There's plenty more to be said about Herbert 'Doc Evatt', as Gideon Haigh reveals in his sparkling new biography

By Michael McKernan
July 17 2021 - 12:00am
H.V. (Doc) Evatt, 1935 (detail), by Arnold Shore. Gift of Elizabeth Evatt and Penelope Seidler 1998. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program. Malcom K Shore
H.V. (Doc) Evatt, 1935 (detail), by Arnold Shore. Gift of Elizabeth Evatt and Penelope Seidler 1998. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program. Malcom K Shore
  • The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Experiment, by Gideon Haigh. Simon & Schuster, $39.99.

Readers may well come to this book with some reluctance. Hasn't enough already been written on Herbert Vere Evatt, they may legitimately ask? What more might possibly be said? Surely there is no remaining interest in the life of a man, long dead, with little relevance to today's world?

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