Many Australians know of Fletcher Jones - the stores, the clothing, the daggy dad slacks - but few know the extraordinary man behind it all. David Fletcher Jones was an autodidact, a wanderer and dreamer who became a visionary businessman and social entrepreneur.

Front cover of A Suitable Man

Jock Serong's biography is a fascinating look into Australia's twentieth century progress across social policy, immigration, manufacturing, the city and country divide and the rise and fall of wool. But most importantly, perhaps, it shows what is to be learned from Fletcher Jones's fundamental human decency and his determination to run an enterprise for profit while seeking to do good at individual and societal levels.

Jock will be in-conversation with Cecile Shanahan to share the research and stories he uncovered as he wrote A Suitable Man.

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Contact the host of A Suitable Man - Jock Serong