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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 A Thinking Reed
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'A Thinking Reed spans [Jones's] remarkable career, from a lonely childhood in Melbourne of the 1930s and 1940s to the fight he led against the death penalty to his crusade to make science and the future prominent issues on the political agenda. He has worked tirelessly on both a global and local scale to rethink education, to improve and preserve our heritage, to revive the nations's film industry, and to build a better Australia.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Epigraph: Man is but a reed, the feeblest in nature, but he is a thinking reed...Blaise Pascal, Pensees (200 H3)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2006 .
      Extent: 576p.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • Foreword by Phillip Adams.
      ISBN: 174114387X, 9781741143874

Works about this Work

The Pointed Review Larissa Behrendt , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 8 March vol. 6 no. 124 2007; (p. 32)

— Review of A Thinking Reed Barry Jones , 2006 single work autobiography
Sceptical by Nature John Button , 2007 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 289 2007; (p. 4-5)
A Man Too Smart for Political Success Anna Reynolds , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17-18 December 2006; (p. 19) The Advertiser , 6 January 2007; (p. 10)

— Review of A Thinking Reed Barry Jones , 2006 single work autobiography
Educator or Smug Teacher, Take Your Pick John Clare , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 17 December 2006; (p. 57)

— Review of A Thinking Reed Barry Jones , 2006 single work autobiography
Innocent Abroad Neal Blewett , 2006-2007 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 287 2006-2007; (p. 9-10)

— Review of A Thinking Reed Barry Jones , 2006 single work autobiography
The Man Who Would be a Philosopher-King Norman Abjorensen , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 October 2006; (p. 31)

— Review of A Thinking Reed Barry Jones , 2006 single work autobiography
The Story Barry Jones Won't Tell Geoffrey Barker , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Financial Review , 14 - 15 October 2006; (p. 20-21)

— Review of A Thinking Reed Barry Jones , 2006 single work autobiography
Keeping Up with the Jones Morag Fraser , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 October 2006; (p. 21)

— Review of A Thinking Reed Barry Jones , 2006 single work autobiography
Confession of an Autodidact James Walter , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , November vol. 1 no. 3 2006; (p. 7-8)

— Review of A Thinking Reed Barry Jones , 2006 single work autobiography
Keeping Up with Jones from Quiz Shows to the Death Penalty Quentin Beresford , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 18 November 2006; (p. 8-9)

— Review of A Thinking Reed Barry Jones , 2006 single work autobiography
Dispatches from the Reviewing Front ... Stephen Matchett , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , November vol. 1 no. 3 2006; (p. 22)
Matchett comments on reviews of Barry Jones's A Thinking Reed.
Sceptical by Nature John Button , 2007 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 289 2007; (p. 4-5)
Last amended 9 Oct 2014 14:04:34
Subjects:
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
  • Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,
  • 1932-1999
  • 2000-2006
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