From Curtin To Menzies And After
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the crossroads of war, recovery, and Cold War anxiety, Australian politics between the 1940s and 1960s was a battleground of ideology, personality, and national identity — and Fred Alexander's From Curtin to Menzies and After chronicles this pivotal era with the incisive clarity of a seasoned historian. The work traces the arc of Australian political leadership from the wartime Labor government of John Curtin, whose resolute direction steered the nation through its most existential crisis, to the long and dominant Liberal premiership of Robert Menzies, whose conservative vision reshaped the country's social and economic fabric for a generation. Alexander, a respected academic historian at the University of Western Australia, brings a scholar's rigour and a commentator's accessibility to his analysis, situating Australian political life within the broader currents of post-war global history. The result is a richly contextualised account that illuminates not just the men who led the nation, but the competing ideologies and public moods that swept them to power. For anyone seeking to understand how modern Australia was forged in the furnace of mid-twentieth-century politics, this work remains an indispensable and deeply rewarding study.
Author: Fred Alexander
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the crossroads of war, recovery, and Cold War anxiety, Australian politics between the 1940s and 1960s was a battleground of ideology, personality, and national identity — and Fred Alexander's From Curtin to Menzies and After chronicles this pivotal era with the incisive clarity of a seasoned historian. The work traces the arc of Australian political leadership from the wartime Labor government of John Curtin, whose resolute direction steered the nation through its most existential crisis, to the long and dominant Liberal premiership of Robert Menzies, whose conservative vision reshaped the country's social and economic fabric for a generation. Alexander, a respected academic historian at the University of Western Australia, brings a scholar's rigour and a commentator's accessibility to his analysis, situating Australian political life within the broader currents of post-war global history. The result is a richly contextualised account that illuminates not just the men who led the nation, but the competing ideologies and public moods that swept them to power. For anyone seeking to understand how modern Australia was forged in the furnace of mid-twentieth-century politics, this work remains an indispensable and deeply rewarding study.