Appleby explores the role of the Solicitor-General in historical and contemporary Australian governance and politics. The material is organized in eight chapters grouped in three parts devoted to introducing the Solicitor-General, the Australian Solicitor-General, and negotiating the tensions between the Solicitor-General. The author is a faculty member of the University of New South Wales in Australia. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ?016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)