MENZIES AT WAR.
Author : ANNE. HENDERSON
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN : 9781525206870
Author : ANNE. HENDERSON
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN : 9781525206870
Author : John Howard
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1743097972
An assessment of Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, by John Howard, Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister, this is a significant, unique and fascinating history of the Menzies era - a time that laid the foundations for modern Australia. 'Engaging and revealing ... like a torchlight shone from an unexpected angle' Geoffrey Blainey, Weekend Australian Fresh from the success of his phenomenal bestselling memoir, LAZARUS RISING, which has sold over 100,000 copies, John Howard now turns his attention to one of the most extraordinary periods in Australian history, the Menzies era, canvassing the longest unbroken period of government for one side of politics in Australia's history. The monumental Sir Robert Menzies held power for a total of over 18 years, making him the longest-serving Australian Prime Minister. During his second term as Prime Minister, a term of over sixteen years - by far the longest unbroken tenure in that office - Menzies dominated Australian politics like no one else has ever done before or since, and these years laid the foundations for modern Australia. The Menzies era saw huge economic growth, social change and considerable political turmoil. Covering the impact of the great Labor split of 1955 as well as the recovery of the Labor Party under Whitlam's leadership in the late 1960s and the impact of the Vietnam War on Australian politics, this magisterial book offers a comprehensive assessment of the importance of the Menzies era in Australian life, history and politics. John Howard, only ten when Menzies rose to power, and in young adulthood when the Menzies era came to an end, saw Menzies as an inspiration and a role model. His unique insights and thoughtful analysis into Menzies the man, the politician, and his legacy make this a fascinating, highly significant book. 'This important book' Clive James, Times Literary Supplement
Author : Martyn Hagan
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : Robert Menzies
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0642192855
Dark and Hurrying Days is the text of a diary kept by Robert Menzies, then Prime Minister of Australia, of his experiences during a wartime trip to England in 1941. It was a grim time when British cities were enduring heavy bombing and German invasion seemed imminent. Menzies' Diary reveals the shifting feelings and fears which these experiences engendered in him, and is of prime importance in capturing the brooding spirit of this grim time.
Author : Frank Cain
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Academic
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781864485738
Researched and written in the aftermath of the Cold War, which conditioned so many of the previous interpretations, this book makes a new and timely contribution to our understanding of Menzie's international policies in war and peace.
Author : John Edward Webb
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : David Day
Publisher : New York : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780913729939
Recounts the divisions between Churchill and Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1941, describes the political opposition to Churchill and explains why Menzies wanted to replace the British Prime Minister
Author : Martyn Lyons
Publisher : NewSouth Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1742249957
‘I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean’, wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance. Robert Menzies received 22,000 letters during his record-breaking 1949-1966 second term as Australian Prime Minister. From war veterans, widows and political leaders to school students and homespun philosophers. Ordinary citizens sent their congratulations and grievances and commented on speeches they had heard on radio. They lectured him, quoted Shakespeare and the Bible at him and sent advice on how to eliminate the rabbit problem. In Dear Prime Minister, Menzies’ fabled ‘Forgotten People’ write back. Revealed here for the first time, the letters respond to the royal visit of 1954, Communism, Australia’s British connection and the dire poverty of aged pensioners. For many writers, these were not post-war boom years, but a time of anxiety and conflict, punctuated by fears of war, another Great Depression, or a nuclear Armageddon. Dear Prime Minister is a fascinating insight into the concerns, assumptions and political beliefs of 1950s and 1960s Australians. 'An elegantly wry testament to a lost era of letter-writing, as Menzies’ ‘Forgotten People’ lay bare their assorted fears, gripes, hopes, sycophancy, paranoia, generosity, smugness, ingrained racism, sectarian prejudices, sometimes desperate poverty – and often atrocious spelling.' – Richard White
Author : David Lowe
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780868405537
Lowe (history, Deakin U.) finds prime minister Robert Menzies to be the towering figure of the age as he explores the Cold War from Australia's perspective. He pivots on the three themes of the threat of a third world war and the imperatives of Australia's rapid economic development.
Author : Robert Menzies
Publisher : Connor Court Publishing Pty Limited
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2018-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781925501445
75th Anniversary Edition. First Published in 1943.