Lloyd Ross sums up the character of the wartime Labor Prime Minister who fought Churchill to bring back Australian troops from Europe to defend his nation: "Curtin was a complex character. Warm and sympathetic, but cold and aloof; a comrade but a loner; a rebel and anti-conscriptionist but Prime Minister. Moody; irritable; uncertain; changeable; vacillating; temperamental; opportunist; sentimental; courageous; all are true of Curtin."

General Information

ISBN : 9780522847345
Publisher : Melbourne University Press
Imprint : Melbourne University Press
Weight (g) : 0.498
Publication date : 29 April 1992
Produced in : Australia
Product Type : books

Other Specifications

Author : Lloyd Ross
Bind : Paperback
Edition : New edition
Dewey classification : 944.042092
Pages : 435
BIC subject : JP
Illustrations : illustrations, bibliog , index

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Author description

Lloyd Ross was the director of public relations for the department of Postwar Reconstruction, 1943-49. Thereafter he pursued a distinguished career in Australian public and intellectual life. He is the author of "William Lane and the Australian Labour Movement."