Cirrus@Austlit

'In Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies 1949–1966, Martyn Lyons brings his considerable expertise on the history of writing, print and publishing to bear on an expansive body of letters written to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in the 1950s and 1960s. These letters, penned chiefly by older white men located in eastern Australia or in London, offer a powerful window into the “heart of Australia’s Liberal-voting middle-class”, replete with its imperial loyalties, racial anxieties, and anti-Communist fervour (223).' (Introduction)