Paul Keating biography by Kerry O'Brien tackles politics and power

Bob Hawke married his biographer, but Paul Keatings relations with those who have tried writing his story have been less romantic. Early efforts by journalists Edna Carew, Michael Gordon and John Edwards the last also for a time a member of Keatings private office attracted various degrees of co-operation from their subject. But matters became more complicated in 2002 when another staff member, speechwriter Don Watson, produced his modern classic Recollections of a Bleeding Heart. Keating launched the book but then ­refused to have anything further to do with Watson. Most recently, unsold copies of a book by experienced biographer David Day were pulped after­ Keating objected to the authors claim that he suffered from dyslexia