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The outstanding final volume of acclaimed author Thomas Keneally's major new three-volume history takes up the story of Australia at the end of the Great War and explores its development as a nation during the tumultuous 20th century
Australia emerged from World War I into a decade of profound change, characterized by a revolution in behavior among the young; by the first great age of consumerism; by the new and increasingly sophisticated impact of the movies; by secret right wing armies and the emergence of the Communist Party; and by two less remembered and very interesting PMs, the handsome, somber Stanley Melbourne Bruce of the Melbourne Establishment, and Jim Scullin, unpretentious Labor man of humbler Irish parentage. As in the two previous volumes, Keneally brings history to vivid and pulsating life as he traces the lives and the deeds of Australians known and unknown. As another war grew closer he follows the famous and the infamous through the Great Crash and the rise of Fascism, and explains how Australia was inexorably drawn into a war which led her forces into combat throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Pacific. At home an atmosphere of fear grew with the fall of Singapore and the bombing of Darwin, the Japanese advance and then the American Alliance and the arrival of General MacArthur. Peace brought its own problems with the Depression that left one third of Australians unemployed. Keneally believes too that the 1950s are misunderstood—depicted by some as an age of full employment, by others as the age of suburban spread and boredom under the serene prime ministership of Robert Menzies. But Menzies was complicated and so were the 1950s. The result of masterly writing and exhaustive research is a volume which brings Australia's more recent history to vibrant life.
Australians: Flappers to Vietnam, by Thomas Keneally- Amazon Sales Rank: #2003294 in Books
- Brand: Keneally, Thomas
- Published on: 2015-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 2.00" h x 7.10" w x 9.70" l, .92 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 608 pages
Review "A very readable yet thorough work." —Library Journal on The Australians: Origins to Eureka "Keneally, a Booker Prize–winning novelist and nonfiction writer, utilizes some wonderful vignettes gleaned from primary sources to advance his narrative. . . . This is a wonderful beginning of a project that should provide enjoyment for both general readers and scholars." —Booklist on The Australians: From Origins to Eureka"Tom has this extraordinary eye for the little details that turn a biographical note into a living, breathing life-size character." —The Hon. Kevin Rudd MP, Prime Minister of Australia
About the Author Thomas Keneally is a novelist, playwright, and nonfiction author who is best-known for the Booker Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark, which was adapted into the movie Schindler's List. His other titles include the Penguin Lives biography Abraham Lincoln, American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles, and A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia. His other awards include the Miles Franklin Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize, The Royal Society of Literature Prize, the Scripter Award of the University of Southern California, the Mondello International Prize, and the Helmerich Prize.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Maybe not as good as earlier volumes By William Gilligan This volume seems to be written with more of a personal left wing bias as opposed to the earlier editions which seemed to have a Irish spin on the world. But that is what history is, the authors view on events and why they happened
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Four Stars By Dickw good read as always from Thomas
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Four Stars By Warren Straker Keneally gives us a very readable and interesting overview of this important period in modern Australian history.
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