Alternative title: The Entrepreneur
Issue Details: First known date: 1951... 1951 Jimmy Brockett : Portrait of a Notable Australian
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Brockett was a great gusty figure, promoter, entrepreneur, a man whose Midas fingers grasped the money bags of sport, entertainment, finance, and moulded shapes in politics and journalism to his own purpose in a ruthless journey to power and fame. He typifies the modern buccaneers who plundered Sydney, N.S.W., in the early 1900's, and yet who, strangely enough, helped in the building of their country's greatness. (Publisher's blurb).

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Works about this Work

The Challenge of the Novel : Australian Fiction Since 1950 Susan Lever , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 498-516)
An Australian Robber Baron Laurie Clancy , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , September no. 96 1984; (p. 73)

— Review of Jimmy Brockett : Portrait of a Notable Australian Dal Stivens , 1951 single work novel
Untitled Van Ikin , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , March vol. 29 no. 1 1984; (p. 91-93)

— Review of Jimmy Brockett : Portrait of a Notable Australian Dal Stivens , 1951 single work novel
Crafty, Comic Fable Restored to Print David Carter , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 31 December 1983; (p. 8)

— Review of Jimmy Brockett : Portrait of a Notable Australian Dal Stivens , 1951 single work novel
Brockett : A Hero-Villain of His Time 1983 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 October 1983; (p. 41)

— Review of Jimmy Brockett : Portrait of a Notable Australian Dal Stivens , 1951 single work novel
Untitled 1959 single work review
— Appears in: The Cairns Post , 31 October 1959; (p. 9)

— Review of Jimmy Brockett : Portrait of a Notable Australian Dal Stivens , 1951 single work novel
Dal Stivens 1951 single work review
— Appears in: The Austrovert , no. 5 1951; (p. 6)

— Review of Jimmy Brockett : Portrait of a Notable Australian Dal Stivens , 1951 single work novel
Untitled 1951 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 2 Novermber 1951; (p. 689)

— Review of Jimmy Brockett : Portrait of a Notable Australian Dal Stivens , 1951 single work novel
Men and Magic Sarah Campion , 1951 single work review
— Appears in: John O'London's Weekly , 12 October 1951; (p. 609)

— Review of Jimmy Brockett : Portrait of a Notable Australian Dal Stivens , 1951 single work novel
Untitled Florence James , 1952 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 11 no. 3 1952; (p. 296-297)

— Review of Jimmy Brockett : Portrait of a Notable Australian Dal Stivens , 1951 single work novel
The Challenge of the Novel : Australian Fiction Since 1950 Susan Lever , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 498-516)

Awards

1948 joint third The Sydney Morning Herald Literary Competition The novel shared third prize under its manuscript title The Entrepreneur. Stivens received 300 pounds, as did the other winners, H. C. Wells and F. B. Vickers (qq.v.).
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