The Split: Australian Labor In The Fifties
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Some minor water damage to edge of DJ.
One of the most turbulent episodes in Australian political history unfolds in Robert Murray's The Split: Australian Labor in the Fifties, a meticulous account of the dramatic fracture that tore the Australian Labor Party apart during the Cold War era. Murray chronicles the bitter ideological war waged within the ALP throughout the 1950s, centred on the rise of B.A. Santamaria's Catholic Social Movement and the anti-communist Industrial Groups, and the eventual, seismic rupture that gave birth to the Democratic Labor Party — a schism that would define Australian politics for a generation. Murray writes with the authority of a seasoned political journalist, marshalling a wealth of primary sources, interviews, and documentary evidence to construct a narrative that is both scrupulously factual and compellingly dramatic. The work stands as an indispensable piece of Australian historiography, illuminating the intersection of religion, ideology, and class loyalty that made the Split so personally devastating for thousands of ordinary Labor supporters. For anyone seeking to understand the fault lines that still run beneath the surface of the Australian left, this landmark study raises questions that remain stubbornly, fascinatingly unresolved.
Author: Robert Murray
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, Cheshire.
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Some minor water damage to edge of DJ.
One of the most turbulent episodes in Australian political history unfolds in Robert Murray's The Split: Australian Labor in the Fifties, a meticulous account of the dramatic fracture that tore the Australian Labor Party apart during the Cold War era. Murray chronicles the bitter ideological war waged within the ALP throughout the 1950s, centred on the rise of B.A. Santamaria's Catholic Social Movement and the anti-communist Industrial Groups, and the eventual, seismic rupture that gave birth to the Democratic Labor Party — a schism that would define Australian politics for a generation. Murray writes with the authority of a seasoned political journalist, marshalling a wealth of primary sources, interviews, and documentary evidence to construct a narrative that is both scrupulously factual and compellingly dramatic. The work stands as an indispensable piece of Australian historiography, illuminating the intersection of religion, ideology, and class loyalty that made the Split so personally devastating for thousands of ordinary Labor supporters. For anyone seeking to understand the fault lines that still run beneath the surface of the Australian left, this landmark study raises questions that remain stubbornly, fascinatingly unresolved.