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The forgotten Menzies : the world picture of Australia's longest-serving prime minister / Stephen A. Chavura and Greg Melleuish.

The forgotten Menzies : the world picture of Australia's longest-serving prime minister / Stephen A. Chavura and Greg Melleuish.
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ISBN 9780522877687
Author Chavura, Stephen A. (author)
Title The forgotten Menzies : the world picture of Australia's longest-serving prime minister / Stephen A. Chavura and Greg Melleuish.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Carlton, VIC : Melbourne University Press, 2021.
©2021.
Description vii, 192 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-186) and index.
Summary 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 puritanismin 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.
Subjects Menzies, Robert, -- Sir,1894-1978
Politicians -- Australia
Prime ministers -- Australia
Political leadership -- Australia
Liberal Party of Australia
Australia -- Politics and government -- 1939-1945
Australia -- Politics and government -- 1949-1966
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Melleuish, Gregory, 1954- (author)
Call number 2021.076
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