Australians: Nine Profiles
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
A vivid window into the lives of nine remarkable Australians, John Hetherington's Australians: Nine Profiles presents a masterfully curated collection of biographical portraits that captures the breadth and complexity of Australian public life in the mid-twentieth century. The subjects — Alan Marshall, George Vasey, Phillip Law, Keith Murdoch, Peter Russo, Chester Wilmot, Damien Parer, Harry Hopman, and Hugh D. McIntosh — span the worlds of literature, military leadership, polar exploration, journalism, sport, and the arts, each rendered with the precision and empathy of a seasoned observer. Hetherington, himself a distinguished Australian journalist and biographer, brings a reporter's eye and a historian's rigour to each portrait, illuminating not just individual achievement but the broader cultural forces that shaped a generation of Australians. His prose is measured yet compelling, drawing readers into intimate encounters with figures whose legacies continue to resonate. Whether chronicling the quiet heroism of a wartime cameraman or the steely ambition of a media patriarch, Australians: Nine Profiles raises a fundamental question: what does it truly mean to be Australian?
Author: John Hetherington
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
A vivid window into the lives of nine remarkable Australians, John Hetherington's Australians: Nine Profiles presents a masterfully curated collection of biographical portraits that captures the breadth and complexity of Australian public life in the mid-twentieth century. The subjects — Alan Marshall, George Vasey, Phillip Law, Keith Murdoch, Peter Russo, Chester Wilmot, Damien Parer, Harry Hopman, and Hugh D. McIntosh — span the worlds of literature, military leadership, polar exploration, journalism, sport, and the arts, each rendered with the precision and empathy of a seasoned observer. Hetherington, himself a distinguished Australian journalist and biographer, brings a reporter's eye and a historian's rigour to each portrait, illuminating not just individual achievement but the broader cultural forces that shaped a generation of Australians. His prose is measured yet compelling, drawing readers into intimate encounters with figures whose legacies continue to resonate. Whether chronicling the quiet heroism of a wartime cameraman or the steely ambition of a media patriarch, Australians: Nine Profiles raises a fundamental question: what does it truly mean to be Australian?