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John Curtin: A BiographyStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionLloyd Ross sums up the character of the wartime Labor Prime Minister who fought Churchill to bring back Australian troops from Europe to defend his nation: "Curtin was a complex character. Warm and sympathetic, but cold and aloof; a comrade but a loner; a rebel and anti-conscriptionist but Prime Minister. Moody; irritable; uncertain; changeable; vacillating; temperamental; opportunist; sentimental; courageous; all are true of Curtin." Author descriptionLloyd Ross was the director of public relations for the department of Postwar Reconstruction, 1943-49. Thereafter he pursued a distinguished career in Australian public and intellectual life. He is the author of "William Lane and the Australian Labour Movement." |