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    Dec 11, 2019 4 minutes
    REVIEWS BY JEFF CENTENERA

    TEA AND SCOTCH WITH BRADMAN

    BY ROLAND PERRY, ABC BOOKS, $39.99

    Over the course of writing his biography of Donald Bradman, as well as three later Bradman-related books, Roland Perry saw a personal side to the cricketing great. These were impressions that didn’t make it into those previous books, focused as they were on his monumental time in cricket. Tea And Scotch With Bradman fills in that missing space; a memoir of the author’s interactions with the personality of the man, as he grappled with writing about the persona of The Don.

    Beyond the image of Bradman as an Australian ideal, there’s a well-established contrary view of an individualist who was remorseless in getting ahead, whether it was in runs or money (his team-mates didn’t like of which he had amazing recall; his maniacal urge to beat Walter Lindrum at billiards after he lost a social game to the legend of the baize.

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