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SECOND HAND BOOK
John Lahey’s half-century in journalism culminated in his noted narrative column, Lahey at Large, published for fourteen years in the Melbourne newspaper, The Age, until 1996. His interest in federation began at primary school where, he says, the subject was taught as a triumphal success story, a value judgement which has never left him. Now he meets young people who cannot name any one figure from the Federation process. Most of their parents are no more knowledgeable. And yet these later generations chase the same ideal as the men in this book — to form a fair and self-determining collective future, whether its name now be reconciliation, a republic or something else.
Faces of Federation is partly a response to indifference. In confining the Federation story to the last decade of the process, the author has sought to convey some idea of the excitement, passion, changing fortunes and suspense which saturated the two great federation convention of 1891 and 1897-98. In addition, he has searched archives around Australia to find the photographs of nearly every one of the eighty-six delegates who took part. Lahey’s view is that many of these men, now largely forgotten, were among the cleverest, most dedicated and most influential in Australia’s history. Faces of Federation helps to re-establish them. Some other photographs from the era are published here for the first time in many years.
Specifications:
Condition: Good. Some minimal scratches and creases on exterior, pages in excellent condition.
Publisher: Royal Historical Society of Victoria
Year: 2000
Format: Paperback
Pages: 134
ISBN: 1875173056
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