Table of Contents

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

Promotional Information

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.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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*