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1 online resource (465 pages) |
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Cover -- Other Books by Les Carlyon -- Title Page -- Dedication & Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Patrick Carlyon -- Part 1: HISTORY -- Taming the north-west frontier -- Clash of cultures at Bougainville -- Up and down on the farm -- South Africa -- Tasmanian gothic -- Goodnight, Princess -- Why history matters -- Part 2: WAR -- Hirohito: each-way punter -- Eisenhower: perfect choice -- The day the earth stood still -- Gallipoli: on sacred ground -- Frightening the owls: the dawn of nationhood -- The view from Bloody Ridge -- Part 3: POLITICS -- Trying to please no one, and succeeding |
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PM survey -- Not running, galloping -- Tiananmen Square -- Men of culture -- Thatcher: one of a kind -- A lovely ear -- Graham Richardson: man for his times -- Irish joke -- Brilliant and original -- No fortress so strong -- Bob Hawke: the love of his life -- Whitlam and Kerr: the dismissal -- Keating's big plays with words -- JGK: the only game in his town -- Howard: extra ordinary -- Watson on Keating -- Part 4: CULTURE WARS -- The Franklin: Australian farce -- Orwell's year has already begun -- Ned Kelly: the new green -- Blind contrition -- Manual labour -- Fun or propaganda? |
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Purified history -- Word fascists rule -- A political killing makes suckers of us all -- Incremental change -- Between a rockand a hard place -- Feeling sheepish? Some good advice -- Be treasonable -- Hard words -- Part 5: SATIRE -- All tip, no iceberg -- The red light for free enterprise -- Illness thoughts -- Blessed attacks on sacred tradition -- Earth: hell of a place to be -- Egg on my face -- Part 6: SPORT -- Please don't sport a smile! -- Why can't we just cheer? -- Cliff Young: cult figure -- Dollars per second -- Sport hit for six -- Mike Tyson: a changed man |
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The Damascus road, sponsored by Marlboro -- The World Cup, 1988: hope in the dust -- Don Bradman: poetry and murder -- Ali: down by the Yarra -- Part 7: LITERATURE -- Banjo, the optimist, saddled up -- A story of tormented experiments -- Patrick White: seeing red -- Clive James: clear as a country creek -- The lore makers -- The battles of Beevor -- Part 8: BUSINESS -- Sam Goldwyn: fresh platitudes -- Scum -- Cycle therapy -- Holmes à Court: the cavalier -- The original Hancock -- The mood of the times -- Poseidon adventure -- Kerry Packer, 1937-2005 -- Part 9: RACING -- How to look at a horse |
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The horse as prose -- The Cup at 150 -- In Kentucky's fields of dreams -- Sir Tristram: big daddy -- Not dead, just stuffed -- As raw as it gets -- The Vic and Vo show comes to town -- Kingston Town: the natural -- Why we came to love Schillaci -- Black Caviar: unbeaten -- A eulogy for Bart Cummings -- Launching The Master -- Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
The collected writing of one of Australia's most admired authors and journalists, Les Carlyon |
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Les Carlyon was one of Australia's greatest journalists and writers. His career in newspapers was stellar - he became editor of The Age at 33, and went on to become editor in chief of The Herald & Weekly Times. But he was always much more about the written word than about management, winning two Walkley Awards and the coveted Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award in a career where he covered everything from politics to horse racing. Yet most Australians will know him as an author, writing books that gave us the very essence of our history and our culture - as though he was in the trenches of the Western Front, or in the betting ring at Flemington. His epic account of the first ANZAC campaign, Gallipoli (2001), was truly ground-breaking, combining incredible research and an ability to capture the human essence with a style that was distinctively his own. Gallipoli went on to become an international bestseller, and his sequel, The Great War (2006), won the Prime Minister's Prize for Australia History, and was the 2007 Australian Book Industry Book of the Year. The Master (2012), an intimate portrait of Bart Cummings, cemented Les's place as Australia's greatest-ever horse racing writer |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 01, 2023) |
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Carlyon, Les.
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Journalists -- Australia -- Biography
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Journalism -- Australia
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Australian essays.
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Autobiography.
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Autobiographies as Topic
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autobiography (genre)
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Australian essays
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Autobiography
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Journalism
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Journalists
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Politics and government
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Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591
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Australia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597
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Australia
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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History
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Carlyon, Patrick, 1972-
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| ISBN |
9781761062377 |
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1761062379 |
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