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Hockey sticks to diplomacy

28 May 2022

9:00 AM

28 May 2022

9:00 AM

Diplomatic: a Washington memoir Joe Hockey (with Leo Shanahan)

Harper Collins, pp.320, $24.00

If you want an inside view on the Trump White House, there could hardly be a better read than Joe Hockey’s account of his time as our US ambassador. It’s funny, deep, wry and revealing; and full of insights drawn from a long and successful public life.

Joe Hockey initially saw going to Washington as the consolation prize for not becoming prime minister.

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