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John Murphy John Murphy i(9636224 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Australians: Flappers to Vietnam : Review John Murphy , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 47 no. 2 2016; (p. 347-348)
— Review of Australians : Flappers to Vietnam : Volume Three Thomas Keneally , 2014 single work prose 'It is a good thing that Tom Keneally is writing history. For an author with a large readership, regarded with affection by many, to write Australian history may help to retrieve some of the casualties of the history wars, which gave too many citizens the impression our history can only ever be thought of as politicised and partisan. And Keneally demonstrates that our history is not just the preserve of academics, or popular authors in bandanas. ...'
1 7 y separately published work icon Evatt : A Life John Murphy , Sydney : NewSouth Publishing , 2016 9636257 2016 single work biography

'John Murphy’s Evatt: A Life is a biography of Australian parliamentarian and jurist HV Evatt. Remembered as the first foreign minister to argue for an independent Australian policy in the 1940s and for his central role in the formation of the UN, Evatt went on to be the leader of the Labor party in the 1950s, the time of the split that resulted in the party being out of power for a generation. Evatt traces the course of Evatt’s life and places him in the context of a long period of conservatism in Australia. It treats Evatt’s inner, personal life as being just as important as his spectacular, controversial and eventual tragic public career. Murphy looks closely at Evatt’s previously unexamined private life and unravels some of the puzzles that have lead Evatt to be considered erratic, even mad.' (Publication summary)
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