Buckley's! : Ken Buckley; historian, author and civil libertarian : an autobiography / Ken Buckley
- Bib ID:
- 4391443
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Buckley, Ken (Kenneth Donald), 1922-2006
- Related Online Resources:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Leichhardt, N.S.W. : A&A, 2008
- 373 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0975786482
- 9780975786482
- Summary:
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Summary: "Buckley's! Ken Buckley gives a candid and vividly lived-in account of his professional and personal life, revealing his vulnerabilities as well as his unswerving commitment to "natural justice". His autobiography is published posthumously by his widow, Berenice Buckley, also a CCL founding member and active worker for immigrant rights and social diversity. Says Berenice, 'Ken was a more complex man than often showed up-front. He had a sharp-and often rashly interventionist!-sense of justice, a formidable and driving intellect and a robust, highly infectious sense of humour. I want people to see, and perhaps be inspired by, the man behind the accolades and the brickbats gathered over his long career as a soldier, historian, teacher and political activist.' In his foreword to Buckley's! The Honourable Justice Michael Kirby says, 'Ken always confronted injustice-barging in where most prudent angels would fear to tread. Every free society needs people like him.'--Publisher description.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Introduction The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG 3
- One A Bastard After All 15
- Two 'How's the Sole Of Your Boot, Sir?' 20
- Three A Good Tackler 24
- Four 'Back to School, Son' 29
- Five Cambridge and Communism 38
- Six Hell's Own Special Brew 46
- Seven Bulgarian Dream 58
- Eight Greek Tragedy 66
- Nine Back to University 88
- Ten To Australia 107
- Eleven Don Dunstan's Hatchet-Man! 117
- Twelve Academic Freedom and Politics 127
- Thirteen Playtime with the Push 138
- Fourteen A Sensational Year 151
- Fifteen On Liberty 167
- Sixteen A Cheeky Black Bastard 180
- Seventeen The Fight for OZ and the PM 192
- Eighteen Not Safe to be Let Out Alone 203
- Nineteen The American War in Vietnam 216
- Twenty Apartheid, Gays and Abortion Reform 237
- Twenty One Secret Dossiers and Dangerous Thoughts 250
- Twenty Two Academic Politics and Other
- Difficult Bastards! 266
- Twenty Three Bathurst Batterings 278
- Twenty Four Twenty-first Anniversary to Remember 292
- Twenty Five Making History and Writing It 310
- Twenty Six Privatisation and Retirement 323
- Twenty Seven Biographies and Other Books 333
- Twenty Eight Ups and Downs 344
- Twenty Nine My Times in Retrospect. 359
- Thirty So Then...? 364
- Notes 373.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2078 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2006
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2008
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