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Come the Revolution: A Memoir Paperback – January 1, 2012

by Alex Mitchell (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
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A rollicking tale of chain-smoking newspapermen, union leaders, revolutionaries, crooked cops, corrupt politicians, spies, dictators, and ordinary working people, this is the memoir of political journalist Alex Mitchell, who worked on several newspapers around Australia before landing in Fleet Street in the 1960s. Full of vivid anecdotes about the lives of an extraordinary range of people—including Yasser Arafat, Muammar Gadafi, Saddam Hussein, and Vanessa Redgrave—this narrative demonstrates how Mitchell's Sunday Times investigative team exposed Soviet double agent Kim Philby and how the journalist became a full-time political activist. Laying bare his life and loves as well as his past and politics with the flair of a born storyteller, Mitchell is unafraid to ask the hard questions about the world or about himself.

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  1. Print length
    560 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    NewSouth
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 2012
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1742233074
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1742233079
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Archie Bayvel
4.0 out of 5 stars Incredible adventures of a man betrayed
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2012
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Alex Mitchell emerged from the obscurity of provincial Queensland to become a well-known and popular Sydney journalist. Then he appeared to vanish off the face of the earth about 20 years ago. If you wonder what happened to him,this is his story... he became a Trotskyite (a what?) editing a Trotskyite paper in London. In the course of his years there he funded it by, among other adventures, extracting hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal donations from the ruling despots (all now dead) of Libya, Palestine, Iraq, and elsewhere. His account of their reactions to him and his cause is astounding and will turn other political and commercial fundraisers green with envy. His apparent neglect of his wives and children during these absent years appears not to have diluted their love and affection for him, another apparent miracle of loyalty that will be the envy of many distant fathers. In the end, however, the Trotskyites appear to have betrayed poor straightforward, hardworking and, dare one say, simple Alex as they became mired in sexual scandal and internal blood-letting. All that drove him back to Australia where he now lives in Queensland with, at last count, his third wife and this memoir of his dream. If you too are young and a nonentity in a bogan town, this is your guide to amazing adventure in international politics.
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T. Williams
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a well written, interesting and enjoyable book shedding light on a very interesting period of modern history. An autobiography but also a historical account of the rise and fall of the wrp. Missing is information on where most of the money came from to set up newsline, the shops, staff etc
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