The Sea and the Drifters and Coastal Sketchbooks
A Melbourne reviewer surveys Diamond Valley and related sketch books, noting Walter Burley Griffin’s 2 Glenard Drive house echoed in Graham Hawley’s Diamond Valley Sketchbook and Gawler Sketchbook. It covers Survive the Savage Sea by Dougal Robertson, colonial poets series from SUN Books, and brief biographical glimpses of Harpur Kendall and Gordon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diamond Valley
Victoria
Glenard Drive
Eaglemont
Heidelberg
Walter Burley Griffin
Graham Hawley
Rigby
Brian McKinlay
Gawler
Maurice Perry
Ian Auhl
Dougal Robertson
Robertson
Friend
England
Lucelle
Galapagos Islands
SUN Books
Charles Harpur
Henry Kendall
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adrian Mitchell
Leonie Kramer
A. D. Hope
Brian Elliott
Harpur
New South Wales
Australia
Idols of a Generation Reflections on Nixon Advisers
Halberstam portrays Kennedy and Johnson aides as parochial and outdated, contrasting them with Nixon era advisers from business and finance. The piece argues the old liberal dream died as Rostow Rusk Bundy and McNamara warned of threats while the new era favored practicality and charm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Foster Dulles
Halberstam
Tice
Walt Rostow
Dean Rusk
Mac Bundy
Bob McNamara
McNamara
Walt Whitman Rostow
Kennedy
Johnson
LBJ
Texan
San Marcos State Teacher College
Hest Eastern Colleges
Rhodes
Lyndon B. Johnson
LBIJ
Rostow
Bundy
Ecstotie
Galbraith
Schlesinger
As If By Magic and The Best and the Brightest review pair
A capsule on Angus Wilson's As If By Magic praises its late peak form and social scope, while David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest is hailed for its gripping, critical portrait of Kennedy era advisers and Vietnam policy shaping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angus Wilson
Secker and Warburg
David Halberstam
Barrie & Jenkins
Johnson
Halberstam
Hubert Humphrey
LBJ
Asia
China
Fulbright
Mansfield
New York Times
Humphrey
Vietnam
Time Magazine
America
Luce
Joseph Alsop
Goulds Birds of Australia as a rare high value book
A detailed retrospective on John Gould the English taxidermist and publisher whose eight volume The Birds of Australia became a landmark coffee table collection. It notes Gould’s expedition collect, collaborations with Gilbert and Aborigines, the modern rarity of the original plates, and the new abridged edition priced at $15 with Chisholm and Serventy’s selections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gould
National Library
Gould
Elizabeth
John Gilbert
Natty
Jemmy
Liverpool Plains
London
Australia
Himalayas
Europe
A. H. Chisholm
Vincent Serventy
Lansdowne
Nsw
Gilbert
Chisholm
Vincent Servenly
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pacific Ocean
Pacific
Eltham
Cal
la Trobe University
Robin Boyd
Nixon
Maurice Dunlevy
Angua Wilson
Wilson
Alexandra Grant
Lawrence
Hamo
Alexandra
Mude
Desire
California
Anami
Lly
Sam Rayburn
New England
Rusk
Dulles
Rockefeller Foundation
Georgia
Chester Bowles
Cherokee County
Dean
Lyndon
Winslow Homer
McGeorge
Mac
Yale
CIA
United States
Antilles
Bob
John Kennedy
Potters
Warrandyte
Hugh Elliot
T. C. Roughley
Fish and Fisheries of Australia
Roger Hungerford
Anglers Omnibus
Dick Lewers
T. R. Henn
Roger Hunberteed
Lance Wedluck
Johan Sadiekr
Melbourne
Thesa
Sadieh
Ned Kally
Glenrowan
Charles
Mark Twain
New Zealand
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