Books by Don Watson
Don Watson is the author of many acclaimed and prize-winning books, among them American Journeys, Caledonia Australis and his biography of Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart. He has twice won The Age Book of the Year, in addition to the National Biography Award, the Courier-Mail Book of the Year, the Alfred Deakin Essay Prize, the Australian Literary Studies Association Book of the Year, a Walkley Award, the New South Wales Premier’s Award, the Queensland Literary Award, and the Independent Booksellers Book of the Year.
Interviews with Don Watson
The best books on The United States, recommended by Don Watson
For all its rugged individualism, frontier violence, and capitalist churn, there’s always a search for grace in America, argues Don Watson, author of the excellent The Shortest History of the United States of America. As the country celebrates the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, we asked him for books to read to learn more about it.
