The Split: Australian Labor In The Fifties
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Few moments in Australian political history were as turbulent or consequential as the great Labor split of the 1950s — a rupture so deep it reshaped the nation's political landscape for decades. The Split: Australian Labor in the Fifties chronicles the bitter ideological and organisational conflict that tore the Australian Labor Party apart, tracing the dramatic rise of B.A. Santamaria's Catholic Social Movement and the Democratic Labor Party's breakaway, all set against the backdrop of Cold War paranoia and the fierce battle against communist influence within the trade union movement. Robert Murray brings the authority of a seasoned journalist and political historian to this meticulously researched account, reconstructing the personalities, factional machinations, and moral convictions that drove men of principle — and ambition — to destroy the very party they sought to save. His prose is sharp and unflinching, presenting the key figures of the era — Evatt, Santamaria, Calwell — with nuance and rigour. A landmark work of Australian political history, The Split remains essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how one catastrophic schism cast a shadow over Labor politics that would not lift for a generation.
Author: Robert Murray
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, Cheshire.
Genre: Australian history
Edition: First Edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Few moments in Australian political history were as turbulent or consequential as the great Labor split of the 1950s — a rupture so deep it reshaped the nation's political landscape for decades. The Split: Australian Labor in the Fifties chronicles the bitter ideological and organisational conflict that tore the Australian Labor Party apart, tracing the dramatic rise of B.A. Santamaria's Catholic Social Movement and the Democratic Labor Party's breakaway, all set against the backdrop of Cold War paranoia and the fierce battle against communist influence within the trade union movement. Robert Murray brings the authority of a seasoned journalist and political historian to this meticulously researched account, reconstructing the personalities, factional machinations, and moral convictions that drove men of principle — and ambition — to destroy the very party they sought to save. His prose is sharp and unflinching, presenting the key figures of the era — Evatt, Santamaria, Calwell — with nuance and rigour. A landmark work of Australian political history, The Split remains essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how one catastrophic schism cast a shadow over Labor politics that would not lift for a generation.