The lucky country
Australia in the sixties
2nd rev. ed [i.e. 3rd ed].
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Word Count
59,500 words, Guess
Page Count
238 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-10020713653X
- ISBN-139780207136535
- LibraryThing355222
- Library of Congress Control Number85225662
- OCLC Control Number13125179
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780207136535
- Open LibraryOL16522331M
Classifications
- DDC994.05
- LCCDU117
- LCCPQ7519 .C8 1983 vol. 4
Description
With an introduction by Hugh Mackay 'Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.' The phrase 'the lucky country' has become part of our lexicon; it's forever being invoked in debates about the Australian way of life, but is all too often misused by those blind to Horne's irony. When it was first published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. Horne took Australian society to task for its philistinism, provincialism and dependence. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled to its past. Although it's a study of the confident Australia of the 1960s, the book still remains illuminating and insightful decades later. The Lucky Country is valuable not only as a source of continuing truths and revealing snapshots of the past, but above all as a key to understanding the anxieties and discontents of Australian society today.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Australian classics
Other Editions
- The lucky country: Australia in the sixties
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