The Young Menzies
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The Young Menzies

Success, Failure, Resilience 1894–1942

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The Young Menzies

Success, Failure, Resilience 1894–1942

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Sir Robert Menzies is a towering figure in Australian history. As the nation's longest-serving prime minister, he transformed and ultimately dominated the political landscape, implementing policies that laid the foundations of modern Australia. The story of Menzies and his governments is essential to the Australian narrative: the centrality of political liberalism, the defence of democracy through trying times, and the expanding horizons of our identity, prosperity and appreciation. The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894–1942 explores the formative period of Menzies's life, when his personal outlook and system of beliefs that would help shape modern Australia were themselves still being formed. Contributors look at Menzies's ideas prior to their political practice and examine their context and origins. This period is also the time in which Menzies first attained power, though in difficult circumstances, when the focus of the nation was on survival. It was in losing office that Menzies was given the impetus to develop his vision for post-war Australia. This is the first of a four-volume history of Menzies and his world, based on conferences convened by the Robert Menzies Institute at the University of Melbourne. Contributors include Frank Bongiorno, Troy Bramston, Judith Brett, Nick Cater, Justice James Edelman, David Furse-Roberts, Anne Henderson, David Kemp, Angela Kittikhoun, Greg Melleuish and Scott Prasser, with a foreword by Geoffrey Blainey.

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Publisher
Melbourne University Press Digital
Year
2022
ISBN
9780522879230
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia de Australia y Oceanía

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 Robert Menzies: The Long Assessment
  8. 2 Young Robert
  9. 3 Menzies and the Law
  10. 4 Menzies: Democracy, Spirit and Education
  11. 5 Robert Menzies’s Debt to Deakinite Liberalism
  12. 6 A Simple Presbyterian in Politics: Robert Menzies, Liberalism and Anti-sectarianism
  13. 7 Peace and War
  14. 8 Menzies and Curtin at War
  15. 9 Menzies: The Learning Leader (and Why He Kept On Winning)
  16. 10 A Little Piece of Earth: The Enduring Legacy of The Forgotten People Radio Talk
  17. Bibliography
  18. Notes
  19. Index