Winner Take All?
Penguin, $2.95 pb, 132 pp
Non-fiction
The Power and the Culture
by Don Grant •
Don’t judge Donald Horne’s books by their titles.
The Lucky Country, he now tells us, is not so much about the good fortune ofAustralia as about Australia as a derivative society. But even that, he said in the preface to the second edition, is misleading, for the central theme is the subtitle: Australia in the Sixties. ‘The Lucky Country theme is really a sub-plot’.
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Winner Take All?
by Donald Horne
Penguin, $2.95 pb, 132 pp
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