Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 A Public Intellectual : The Life and Times of Donald Horne
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'Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck. It lives on other peoples ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround then that they are often taken by surprise.'

'This tough minded verdict by Donald Horne, central to The Lucky Country, lost its force over time. Speech-makers quote the tagline but not the stinging judgement it introduced. Shorn of irony, criticism became affirmation.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Donald Horne : Selected Writings Donald Horne , Nick Horne (editor), Cammeray : La Trobe University Press , 2017 11478216 2017 selected work essay

    'One of Australia’s leading thinkers for close to fifty years, Donald Horne was probably the best Australian non-fiction writer of his generation.

    'This definitive collection of Horne’s writing, thoughtfully selected by his son, Nick, tells the story of his life and intellectual development. From a position of doubting whether change was possible, he eventually became a proponent of the sensible reform necessary for Australia to prosper in a changing world.

    'Horne made the case for a more open, modern, intelligent Australia, most famously in his seminal book The Lucky Country. Selections from this work sit alongside pithy reflections on Australian history and culture, as well as vivid autobiographical writing.

    'With an introduction by Nick Horne and a biographical essay by Glyn Davis , this important book honours and illuminates the man who helped the nation understand itself.' (Publication summary)

    Cammeray : La Trobe University Press , 2017
    pg. ix-xlix
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