Menzies Observed
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Few figures loom as large in Australian political history as Sir Robert Menzies, and Menzies Observed presents the man behind the legend through the eyes of those who knew, admired, challenged, and opposed him. Cameron Hazlehurst constructs a vivid and multifaceted portrait of Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, drawing on a rich tapestry of contemporary accounts, speeches, letters, and personal testimonies to capture the full complexity of a man who shaped a nation for nearly two decades. Rather than offering a conventional chronological biography, the work assembles the voices of contemporaries — colleagues, rivals, journalists, and ordinary Australians — to illuminate how Menzies was perceived across the arc of his remarkable career. Hazlehurst, a distinguished political historian, brings rigorous scholarship and penetrating analytical insight to his subject, situating Menzies within the broader currents of 20th-century Australian conservatism, the Cold War, and the nation's evolving relationship with Britain and the world. The result is a work that is as much a study in political mythology as it is a record of political achievement — probing the gap between the public colossus and the private man. For anyone seeking to understand the foundations of modern Australia, this essential volume raises a question that still resonates: who, ultimately, was Robert Menzies?
Author: Cameron Hazlehurst
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, George Allen & Unwin
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Few figures loom as large in Australian political history as Sir Robert Menzies, and Menzies Observed presents the man behind the legend through the eyes of those who knew, admired, challenged, and opposed him. Cameron Hazlehurst constructs a vivid and multifaceted portrait of Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, drawing on a rich tapestry of contemporary accounts, speeches, letters, and personal testimonies to capture the full complexity of a man who shaped a nation for nearly two decades. Rather than offering a conventional chronological biography, the work assembles the voices of contemporaries — colleagues, rivals, journalists, and ordinary Australians — to illuminate how Menzies was perceived across the arc of his remarkable career. Hazlehurst, a distinguished political historian, brings rigorous scholarship and penetrating analytical insight to his subject, situating Menzies within the broader currents of 20th-century Australian conservatism, the Cold War, and the nation's evolving relationship with Britain and the world. The result is a work that is as much a study in political mythology as it is a record of political achievement — probing the gap between the public colossus and the private man. For anyone seeking to understand the foundations of modern Australia, this essential volume raises a question that still resonates: who, ultimately, was Robert Menzies?