DECEMBER
2008-JANUARY 2009, No. 307
'Ten weeks
in America'
Morag Fraser on the rise of Barack
Obama
'At the Centre for Human Value, we waited
until after McCain's
gracious concession speech before breaking out the champagne.
And even then the celebrations were muted. Something so
extraordinary had happened that it was hard to find words,
and even more difficult to sound trumpets of jubilation.'
'The
Winston factor'
Geoffrey Blainey on Winston
Churchill's relations with
Australia
Few overseas leaders have been as controversial as
Winston
Churchill, the great British wartime prime minister, and
his
influence on Australia was immense and contested for half
a
century, notably during the Gallipoli debacle and World
War II.
Celebrated historian Geoffrey Blainey writes about Graham
Freudenberg's new book, Churchill and Australia.
'The
people are disappointed'
Glyn Davis on Simon Schama
'The American Future joins, in self-conscious
fashion, a long
tradition of writing about America. In this the United
States is
fortunate. Its dramatic history has provoked continuous
reflections
on the nature of American experience and character. As
a Briton
living in America for three decades, Schama writes with
engagement yet distance.'
'Why Afghanistan?'
Riaz Hassan on the
'chaos' in Pakistan
'Descent
into Chaos is a blistering critique of the Bush administrations
failure to establish a viable peace in Afghanistan by
reigning in the
duplicitous governments of Pakistan, Uzbekistan and other
former
Soviet central Asian countries.'
'The person defying the group'
Ian Britain on Anna Bemrose's Robert
Helpmann
Bemrose
[…] comes close to neutering her subject, or complying
too readily
with his strategic evasions. She hardly seems aware of
the posthumous
biographer's freedom - responsibility, even - to consider
the surfaces and
probe whatever may lie beneath them.'
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