119 pages. The head of the jacket's spine is lightly chipped and there is an ownership signature on the front end paper, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. "This weekend, I've been celebrating the 90th birthday of Keith McEwan.....Keith grew up in the shadow of Pentridge Prison in Melbourne. He loved reading and thinking and in other circumstances might have had a career in any number of fields. But his family was dirt-poor - his childhood coincided with the Great Depression, and his father was unemployed from 1930 to 1941. Keith had to give up school early to help contribute to household income. From the age of 14 he worked in a sheet metal factory and a series of other unskilled jobs. He gravitated to left wing politics and joined the Communist Party at the age of 21. His work in the party took him into the heart of union and cold war political struggles of the 1950s. He was a committed comrade for many years, before his sincerity and desire for genuine democracy within the party saw him leave in disillusionment. Afterwards, eventually, he became a real estate agent and settled into life as father, grandfather and, more recently, great-grandfather. While he left party politics behind, he never stopped supporting progressive causes or quietly supporting those about him who were struggling. He visited prisoners, supported land rights, campaigned for the rights of the Stolen Generation, civil liberties, marriage equality and voluntary euthanasia. He is well-known in Canberra for his letters to the editor of the Canberra Times on all of these issues and many others......" (The squawkin' galah Tracy Sorensen May 22, 2016 - The entire entry is worth reading)