| Main Title: |
Curtin's gift : reinterpreting Australia's greatest Prime Minister / |
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| Author: |
Edwards, John (John Ker)
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| Imprint: |
Crowsnest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2005 |
| Collation: |
x, 198 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., portraits, facsimiles, hbk ; 21 cm. |
| Subject: |
Curtin, John, 1885-1945
Australian Labor Party
Prime ministers
Biography
Politics and Government - Australia
Curtin administration
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| ISBN: |
1865087041 : |
| Notes: |
Summary: John Curtin, prime minister during the darkest days of the Second World War, is remembered as the reluctant hero of Australian politics. John Edwards offers a reinterpretation of the leader and the man in which Curtin emerges as a deceptively cunning player in the chess game of politics.
Machine derived contents note: 1 Sleepless vigil 1 -- 2 Saint Jack 13 -- 3 Bringing the troops home 27 -- 4 Curtin as warlord 53 -- 5 Jack Curtin and the Social Question 77 -- 6 Jack Curtin MHR and the Great Depression 95 -- 7 Prime Minister Curtin changes Australia 121 -- 8 Curtin in the Australian story 157.
Includes bibliographical references : p. 161-185, notes and index.
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