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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 The Devil and James McAuley
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Focuses on McAuley as a 'political ideologist and cold war warrior' rather than as a poet and critic and concentrates on his involvement, during the war, with A. A. Conlon's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs and, post-war, with the Democratic Labor Party, the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom and the journal Quadrant. Attempts to explain two important forces in McAuley's life - his religious conversion and his passionate opposition to communism - in terms of a profound belief in the devil . Attributes the former to his encounter, in New Guinea, with Catholic Archbishop Alain de Boismenu, whose story of the nun and mystic Marie-Therese Noblet , believed to be possessed by the devil., made a profound impact on McAuley. Views his political stance as that of a Catholic convert who projected 'his own deep personal torment onto the Devil and Communist agents in the service of the Devil'. (Dust-jacket)

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    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: University of Queensland Press , 1999 .
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      Extent: 321p.
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      • Bibliography 297-316
      ISBN: 0702231118
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Untapped , 2021 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781922749161
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Brio Books ; Untapped , 2022 .
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      Extent: 384p.p.
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      • Published 25 October 2022.
      ISBN: 9781761280832
    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: University of Queensland Press , 2001 .
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      Extent: 350p.p.
      Edition info: New ed. (Revised)
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 070223124X

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— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 73 2002; (p. 197-198) JAS Review of Books , August no. 8 2002;

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[Review] The Devil and James McAuley Geoff Parkes , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 73 2002; (p. 197-198) JAS Review of Books , August no. 8 2002;

— Review of The Devil and James McAuley Cassandra Pybus , 1999 single work criticism
A Tormented Soul Robert Manne , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 213 1999; (p. 5-6)

— Review of The Devil and James McAuley Cassandra Pybus , 1999 single work criticism
An Embarrassment Rafe Champion , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , August no. 191 1999; (p. 30)

— Review of The Devil and James McAuley Cassandra Pybus , 1999 single work criticism
Better the Devil You Know Peter Pierce , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 31 July 1999; (p. 11)

— Review of The Devil and James McAuley Cassandra Pybus , 1999 single work criticism
Dysfunctional Exorcism Donald Horne , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , July vol. 4 no. 6 1999; (p. 5-6)

— Review of The Devil and James McAuley Cassandra Pybus , 1999 single work criticism
The Tenacity of the Liberal Intellectuals Mervyn F. Bendle , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , September vol. 54 no. 9 2010; (p. 8-11)
Australian Biography and Autobiography Gillian Whitlock , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 165-179)
Whitlock explores the richness of Australian biography and autobiography, as it relates to the dynamics of a settler colony.
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— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 43 no. 11 1999; (p. 84)
Ballade of Lost Phrases Peter Coleman , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays 1999 1999; (p. 391-399) The Last Intellectuals : Essays on Writers and Politics 2010; (p. 128-139)
A Life Lived in Personal Conflict Christopher Bantick , 1999 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times Sunday Times , 25 July 1999; (p. 18)
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