The confident years
Subtitle: Australia in the 1920s
By: Robert Murray
Edition: Revised edition.
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd
Published: 2020
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Victoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781925984736
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Nineteen twenties; Social life and customs; History; Social conditions; Politics and government; Manners and customs
Other titles: The confident years :
Description: The Confident Years records the buoyant era between the hard-won victory of World War I and the deep setbacks of the 1930s Depression and World War II. Now a hundred years ago, it was the time when the horse and buggy gave way to the motor car, aeroplane, wireless and cinema. Many colourful personalities were in their heyday - among them, Billy Hughes, Jack Lang, Archbishop Mannix, Keith Murdoch, John Wren, Gladys Moncrieff and 'Squizzy' Taylor. Charles Kingsford Smith ('Smithy') was the first pilot to fly across the Pacific. Don Bradman was beginning his cricket career. Roy ('Up there') Cazaly was the star Australian footballer and Dally Messenger, the first Rugby League immortal. The colt Phar Lap was at the start of his incomparable years on the racecourse. The setting may at first seem like that of another country - at once boisterously optimistic, patriotic, staid and smug - and yet it is still recognisably very Australian.
Notes: First published in 1978 by Allen Lane.

Includes bibliographic references and index.