The Forgotten Menzies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Forgotten Menzies write by Stephen Chavura. This book was released on 2021-05-04. The Forgotten Menzies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was the founder of the Liberal Party of Australia. As well as being Australia’s longest-serving prime minister, Menzies was the most thoughtful. Menzies’ world picture was one where Britishness was the overriding normative principle, and in which cultural puritanism and philosophical idealism were pervasive. Unless we remember this cultural background of Menzies’ thought then we will seriously misunderstand what he meant by the very project of liberalism. The Forgotten Menzies argues that Menzies’ greatest aspiration was to protect the ideals of cultural puritanism Australia from two kinds of materialism: communism; and the mindset encouraged by affluence and technological progress. Central to Menzies’ project of cultural and civilisational preservation was the university, an institution he spent much of his career extolling and expanding. The Forgotten Menzies makes an important contribution to the history of political thought and ideology in Australia, as to understanding the largely forgotten but rich intellectual origins of the Liberal Party.
Menzies
Menzies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Menzies write by David Furse-Roberts. This book was released on 2017-05. Menzies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Previously unpublished speeches of R G Menzies.
The Forgotten People
The Forgotten People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Forgotten People write by Robert Menzies. This book was released on 2018-03. The Forgotten People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 75th Anniversary Edition. First Published in 1943.
Dear Prime Minister
Dear Prime Minister - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dear Prime Minister write by Martyn Lyons. This book was released on 2021-10-01. Dear Prime Minister available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean’, wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance. Robert Menzies received 22,000 letters during his record-breaking 1949-1966 second term as Australian Prime Minister. From war veterans, widows and political leaders to school students and homespun philosophers. Ordinary citizens sent their congratulations and grievances and commented on speeches they had heard on radio. They lectured him, quoted Shakespeare and the Bible at him and sent advice on how to eliminate the rabbit problem. In Dear Prime Minister, Menzies’ fabled ‘Forgotten People’ write back. Revealed here for the first time, the letters respond to the royal visit of 1954, Communism, Australia’s British connection and the dire poverty of aged pensioners. For many writers, these were not post-war boom years, but a time of anxiety and conflict, punctuated by fears of war, another Great Depression, or a nuclear Armageddon. Dear Prime Minister is a fascinating insight into the concerns, assumptions and political beliefs of 1950s and 1960s Australians. 'An elegantly wry testament to a lost era of letter-writing, as Menzies’ ‘Forgotten People’ lay bare their assorted fears, gripes, hopes, sycophancy, paranoia, generosity, smugness, ingrained racism, sectarian prejudices, sometimes desperate poverty – and often atrocious spelling.' – Richard White
Robert Menzies' Forgotten People
Robert Menzies' Forgotten People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Robert Menzies' Forgotten People write by Judith Brett. This book was released on 2014-04-08. Robert Menzies' Forgotten People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. '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, the 'people' who would return him to power in 1949 and keep him there until his retirement in 1966. Who were these 'forgotten people'? The middle class pitting their values of hard work and independence against the collectivist ethos of labour? Women shunning the class-based politics of men? The parents of Menzies' childhood in the small country town of Jeparit? Australians struggling to maintain a derivative culture at the edges of the British Empire? Or all of them, in a richly over-determined image that takes us to the heart of Menzies' mid-life political transformation? Judith Brett deftly traces the links between the private and public meanings of Menzies' political language to produce compelling insights into the man and the culture he represented.
