Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s
- ISBN-10
- 1742241972
- ISBN-13
- 9781742241975
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 608
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-06-01
- Publisher
- NewSouth
- Author
- Stuart Macintyre
Description
In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. An extraordinary group of individuals, notably John Curtin, Ben Chifley, Nugget Coombs, John Dedman and Robert Menzies, re-made the country, planning its reconstruction against a background of wartime sacrifice and austerity. The other part of this triumphant story shows Australia on the world stage, seeking to fashion a new world order that would bring peace and prosperity. This book shows the 1940s to be a pivotal decade in Australia. At the height of his powers, Macintyre reminds us that key components of the society we take for granted – work, welfare, health, education, immigration, housing – are not the result of military endeavour but policy, planning, politics and popular resolve.
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