| Main Title: |
No casual traveller : Hartley Grattan and Australia--US connections / Laurie Hergenhan. |
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| Author: |
Hergenhan, L. T. (Laurence Thomas), 1931-
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| Imprint: |
University of Queensland Press, 1995. |
| Collation: |
xvii, 306 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., portraits, notes, bib., index, pbk ; 23 cm. |
| Summary: |
C. Hartley Grattan (1902-1980) was a writer, journalist and historian with a wide ranging interest in Australia. He made several trips, including an extended visit as a Carnegie fellow, and his 1942 book Introducing Australia was a bestseller in the Unite
, Grattan formed close friendships with Miles Franklin and H.V. Evatt as well as many others, though his forthright lectures on what he perceived to be national failings earned him criticism as well as media attention.
Grattan played an important role, however, in forging greater cultural understanding between America and Australia, and his substantial collection of Australian and Pacific material is now housed at the University of Texas at Austin where Grattan was prof |
| Subject: |
Grattan, C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley), 1902-1980.
Journalists and journalism.
Biography
United States of America (USA)
Historians
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| Series: |
UQP paperbacks
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| ISBN: |
0702227536 |
| Notes: |
Arts Queensland funded literature.
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