Robert Menzies' Forgotten People by Judith Brett - ISBN: 9780522853919
Paperback
Menzies’ forgotten people: Unpacking the man, the myth, the middle class.

Robert Menzies' Forgotten People

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    1 July 2007

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Summary

The new edition of Judith Brett’s award-winning book, providing compelling insight into Menzies and his era.

‘Menzies’ political self was constructed around a denial of experience and an imagined England filled the void. So too for the people and the country he led…’

In 1941, RG Menzies delivered to war-time Australia what was to be his richest, most creative speech, and one of his most influential. ‘The Forgotten People’ was a direct address to the Australian middle class, th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522853919
ISBN-10:0522853919
Author:Judith Brett
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Edition:1st
Release Date:1 July 2007
Weight:354g
Dimensions:232mm x 158mm x 26mm
About The Author

Judith Brett

Judith Brett is Professor of Politics at La Trobe University. She is the author of Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class- From Alfred Deakin to John Howard (Cambridge, 2003), Relaxed and Comfortable- The Liberal Party’s Australia (BlackInc, Quarterly Essay 19), and, with Anthony Moran, Ordinary People’s Politics (Pluto, 2006).

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