Introduction 1 Commerce and Conflict, 1883-1917 2 The Accidental Prime Minister, 1918-1923 3 Men, Money and Markets, 1923-1924 4 The Prime Minister Triumphant, 1924-1925 5 Nation and Empire, 1926-1927 6 ‘Over the Top', 1928-1929 7 Redux, 1930-1934 8 ‘Ambassador-at-Large Par Excellence', 1932-1936 9 Appeasement and the Bruce Report, 1937-1939 10 The High Commissioner at War, 1939-1941 11 The World at War, 1941-1943 12 Apostle of International Co-operation, 1943-1967 13 The Bruce Legacy Notes Bibliography Index
Australia's Prime Minister and premier diplomat in the 1930/1940s, this new biography presents him as a consistent internationalist and places him in a global context.
David Lee is the Director of the Historical Publications and Information Section of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and an Adjunct Professor in History at Deakin University, Australia.
Three writers have previously written complete or partial
biographies of Bruce. All have had some value, but none has been
adequate, and historians have long been conscious of an important
gap in Australia's political history. David Lee has filled that gap
with a biography that is likely to remain a standard work for many
years.
*Australian Book Review*
‘The great strength of this book is the successful way Lee has
compressed such a rich and diverse life into a relatively short
account. The research is thorough but the pace never slackens...
one of the best single volume biographies written of an Australian
Prime Minister.'
*The Australian Journal of Politics and History*
David Lee’s biography of Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce
(1883-1967) has been reviewed and discussed in online media, in the
daily press and in scholarly journals... Lee’s book has coincided
with an expansive interplay of writing and researching on
contemporary issues that also preoccupied Bruce. These include the
implications of international investment and trade for unequal
distributions of wealth between nations; the struggles between
trade unions and employers over the regulation of the labour
market; the roles of politicians and economists in the battles
between neo-classical, monetarist and Keynesian ideas; and the
historical lessons from the 1930s for sustained recovery from the
global financial crisis.
*Journal of Australian Political Economy*
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