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From Traveller to Traitor: The Life of Wilfred Burchett (Academic Monographs)
Tom Heenan
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Paperback. Series: Academic Monographs. Num Pages: 370 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 177.
The radical journalist Wilfred Burchett (16/9/1911-27/9/1983) was persecuted by the Australian government during his lifetime and publicly reviled in print long after his death. After a distinguished wartime career with the ""London Daily Express"", Burchett drifted to the left with the onset of the Cold War. During the Korean and Vietnam wars he was condemned as a traitor for his pro-Communist reports, and denied an Australian passport by successive Liberal governments of the 1950s and 1960s. ""From Traveller to Traitor"" is the first scholarly biography of this controversial foreign correspondent. Tom Heenan explores the truth behind Burchett's reports from his ... Read more
The radical journalist Wilfred Burchett (16/9/1911-27/9/1983) was persecuted by the Australian government during his lifetime and publicly reviled in print long after his death. After a distinguished wartime career with the ""London Daily Express"", Burchett drifted to the left with the onset of the Cold War. During the Korean and Vietnam wars he was condemned as a traitor for his pro-Communist reports, and denied an Australian passport by successive Liberal governments of the 1950s and 1960s. ""From Traveller to Traitor"" is the first scholarly biography of this controversial foreign correspondent. Tom Heenan explores the truth behind Burchett's reports from his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Condition
New
Series
Academic Monographs
Number of Pages
370
Place of Publication
Carlton, Australia
ISBN
9780522852295
SKU
V9780522852295
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About Tom Heenan
Tom Heenan lectures in Contemporary Australia and Sport in Society at Monash University's National Centre for Australian Studies. Tom has contributed to Overland and the Australian Dictionary of Biography, and has also written on the Irish socialist William Thomson and his relationship with the feminist Anna Doyle Wheeler. He is currently working on a history of the scientific management ... Read more
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