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y separately published work icon The Forgotten Menzies single work   biography  
Alternative title: The Forgotten Menzies : The World Picture of Australia's Longest-Serving Prime Minister
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 The Forgotten Menzies
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'A new portrait of Australia's longest-serving prime minister that will transform your understanding of the beginnings of the Liberal Party.

'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 puritanism 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.'

Source : publisher's blurb

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Works about this Work

Menzies the Puritan Idealist Ian Hancock , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , June 2021;

— Review of The Forgotten Menzies Stephen Chavura , Greg Melleuish , 2021 single work biography

'Conservative or liberal? A new book about the former prime minister rejects the old binary in favour of two other strands of thought' 

Menzies the Puritan Idealist Ian Hancock , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , June 2021;

— Review of The Forgotten Menzies Stephen Chavura , Greg Melleuish , 2021 single work biography

'Conservative or liberal? A new book about the former prime minister rejects the old binary in favour of two other strands of thought' 

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