Volume LII Number 451
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Books
The Little Aussie Cunctator
In a smashing new history of the thirties, David S. Bird re-examines the “devil’s decade” in his book J.A. Lyons—The Tame Tasmanian. What we learn from Bird’s book is, first, that Joe Lyons may have been misjudged, and second, quite a bit about the period when Australia began to take itself seriously in foreign affairs—particularly in the Pacific region.
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