The Mad Marathon: The Story of the 2013 Election

Imogen Kandel Senior Publicist Black Inc. http://www.blackincbooks.com

With the 2013 race for the Lodge now run and won, who better than Mungo
MacCallum to make sense of it all?

With wit and insight, Mungo documents the ups and downs of this longest of
ampaigns. He dissects Labor’s self-destructive leadership war, the Coalition’s cheap
and nasty Broadband Lite, and the plight of our billionaire battlers, doing it tough
on $250K.

This fast-paced and incisive account follows Canberra’s finest as they speed around
the country, taking selfies, kissing nuns and generally saying anything to get your
vote.

The Mad Marathon is the essential chronicle of the 2013 election year from one of
Australia’s most original and entertaining writers.

Praise for Mungo MacCallum
“No political correspondent in Canberra ever wrote better than Mungo MacCallum.
After decades, the phrases still hit the mind as a thing of joy.” — Peter Craven,
Sydney Morning Herald

Mungo MacCallum has been a print, magazine and
television journalist for over forty years. His books include
The Good, The Bad & The Unlikely: Australia’s Prime
Ministers, Mungo: The Man Who Laughs, How To Be a
Megalomaniac, Poll Dancing: The Story of the 2007 Election
and Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010.