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Edmund Barton
This is how an easy-going Sydney politician, with a reputation for enjoying the pleasures of the table and a fondness for cricket, became possessed by an enduring passion to a make a new country from a collection of British colonies, and became Australia's first prime minister.
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- "This is how an easy-going Sydney politician, with a reputation for enjoying the pleasures of the table and a fondness for cricket, became possessed by an enduring passion to a make a new country from a collection of British colonies, and became Australia's first prime minister."@en
- "Few Australians know the name of their first Prime Minister, yet without Edmund Barton Australia might not have become a Commonwealth in 1901. Engaging and thoroughly researched, this biography is the first in fifty years to examine the life of this inspiring Australian."@en