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1 online resource (216 pages) |
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Title Page; Copyright; Contents; A Public Intellectual: The Life and Times of Donald Horne by Glyn Davis; Donald Horne: Selected Writings; A Brief Timeline for Donald Horne; Introduction by Nick Horne; Formative Years; Childhood; 1. The Education of Young Donald; Making our own fun; Country, King, God; 'Be yourself, Don'; 'It is my desire to do great things'; University; 2. John Anderson and the Andersonians; 3. A Time of Sadness; 4. You Made What You Liked of Me, Boys; Radical Conservative; 5. Some Cultural Elites in Australia; 6. The Great Crisis of the Golden Age; 7. Ambition |
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8. The Metaphor of Leftness9. The Lucky Country; The Australian Dream; The Lucky Country; Fiction; 10. But What If There Are No Pelicans?; The last interrogation; The Australia Discussion; 11. The Australian People; The orphans of the Pacific; 12. Money Made Us; The secular faith of growth; The profit motive; 13. Death of the Lucky Country; Landscape of disaster; 14. Ideas for a Nation; Australia is ordinary; 15. A Story of What Might Have Been; 16. The Importance of Symbolism: Australia Should Become a Republic; It's All about the Culture; 17. The Intelligent Tourist; How to be real |
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18. The Public CultureA national mirage; A declaration of 'cultural rights'; 19. The Politics of the Australian Tribe: A Confidential Report by an Anthropologist from Outer Space; 20. It's the Culture, Stupid; The Thoughts of old Donald; 21. Into the Open; Knocking down a national edifice; 22. Looking for Leadership: Australia in the Howard Years; Putting on a show: leadership in a liberal-democratic society; 23. 10 Steps to a More Tolerant Australia; The pleasures of tolerance; 24. Mind, Body and Age; 25. Dying: A Memoir; Faith; Sources; Index; Back Cover |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Horne, Donald, 1921-2005.
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Authors, Australian -- Biography
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Journalists -- Australia -- Biography
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Authors, Australian
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Journalists
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Manners and customs
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Politics and government
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Australia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597
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Australia -- Social life and customs
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Australia
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Horne, Nick
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| ISBN |
9781925435757 |
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192543575X |
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