{"product_id":"the-racket-9780522855784","title":"The Racket","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gideon Haigh\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Melbourne University\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Melbourne University\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Abortion \u0026amp; Birth Control\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA generation ago in Australia, abortion was a crime. It was also the basis of one of the country's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Racket describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of influence, which culminated in the landmark ruling that made abortion legal, and a public inquiry that humiliated a powerful government and a glamorous police force. With forensic skill and psychological subtlety, Gideon Haigh brings to life a story of corruption in high places and human suffering in low, of murder, suicide, courtroom drama, political machinations, and of the abortionists themselves: among them a multi-millionaire philanthropist, a communist bush poet, a timid aesthete and a bankrupt slaughterman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the story, too, of Bertram Wainer, abortion's crash-through-or-crash campaigner, and the moral issue he bequeathed which still divides Australians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melbourne University","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47609385222295,"sku":"9780522855784","price":2612.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780522855784.webp?v=1775057969","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-racket-9780522855784","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}