Unholy Fury
The US Alliance and the Whitlam-Nixon Crisis
$59.21
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2015
Summary
The inside story of just how close the alliance between Australia and the US came to breaking.
In the early 1970s, two titans of Australian and American politics—Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and President Richard Nixon—clashed over the end of the Vietnam War and the shape of a new Asia. A relationship that had endured the heights of the Cold War veered dangerously off course and seemed headed for destruction.
Drawing on sensational new evidence from once top-secret American an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522868203 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522868207 |
| Author: | James Curran |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 588g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 235mm x 155mm |
About The Author
James Curran
James Curran teaches history at Sydney University and is a Research Associate at the US Studies Centre. He is the author of Curtin’s Empire, The Power of Speech- Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image-shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and the NSW Premier’s History Prize-and, with Stuart Ward, The Unknown Nation- Australia After Empire, shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Australian History Prize. He is a Fulbright Scholar and in 2013 was the Chair of Australian History at University College Dublin.
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