{"product_id":"2026200012819-secondhand-brian-fitzpatrick-a-radical-life","title":"Brian Fitzpatrick: A Radical Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures in Australian intellectual and political life burned with quite the fierce, uncompromising conviction of Brian Fitzpatrick — historian, civil libertarian, and tireless agitator for the working class — and Don Watson's Brian Fitzpatrick: A Radical Life restores this towering yet often overlooked figure to his rightful place in the national story. Watson chronicles Fitzpatrick's extraordinary journey from his roots in early twentieth-century Australia through his emergence as one of the country's most provocative left-wing historians, whose landmark works on Australian capitalism and colonial exploitation reshaped how a generation understood their own past. A founding force behind the Australian Council for Civil Liberties, Fitzpatrick waged relentless campaigns against censorship, political repression, and the abuse of state power at a time when such stands carried genuine personal cost.\n\nWatson, who would himself go on to become one of Australia's most celebrated writers and intellectuals, brings a sharp biographical eye and a prose of considerable elegance to this portrait, situating Fitzpatrick not merely as a political actor but as a deeply human contradiction — brilliant and embattled, principled and turbulent. The biography stands as both a work of serious historical scholarship and an impassioned argument for the enduring relevance of dissent in a democratic society. Readers drawn to the intersection of ideas, politics, and personality will find in Fitzpatrick's story a life that continues to pose uncomfortable questions about power, conscience, and the cost of speaking truth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203262718171,"sku":"2026200012819-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5d0a2f76-6dd0-41aa-980a-81634d46f45b.png?v=1788146775","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012819-secondhand-brian-fitzpatrick-a-radical-life","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}