The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins

Donald Horne

The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins
  • Format
    Paperback
  • Publisher
    Penguin Books Australia
  • Country
    Australia
  • Published
    29 June 2009
  • Pages
    288
  • ISBN
    9780143202813

The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins

Donald Horne

‘Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.’

First published in 1964, The Lucky Country caused a sensation. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled to its past.

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The publication in 1964 of The Lucky Country changed the way that Australians thought about themselves. This work is an extract from Horne's memoirs that recalls the personal and public circumstances, which led him to write The...

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The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins

The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins

Donald Horne

First published in 1964, the book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled to its past. Valuable not only as a source of continuing truths and revealing snapshots...

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