JAS Review of books

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David Hendy, Radio in the Global Age, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2000, pp 260, pb $53.90. Rob Johnson, Cash for Comment: The Seduction of Journo Culture, Pluto Press, Annandale, 2000, pp 286, pb $32.95. J Mohan Malik (ed.), Australia's Security in the 21st Century, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1999, 304 pp, $32.95. Andrew McGahan, Last Drinks, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2000, pp 377, pb $24.95. Eve Langley, The Pea‐Pickers (1942), A&R Classics, Sydney, 2001, pp 375, $19.95. Kylie Tennant, Ride on Stranger (1943), A&R Classics, Sydney, 2001, pp 356, $19.95. Ashley Mallett, Bradman's Band, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2000, pp 223, pb, $28.00. Dennis Glover and Glenn Patmore (eds), For the People: Reclaiming our Government, Armadale NSW, Pluto Press, Annandale, 2000, pp ix + 248, pb. $32.95. Rosalind Kidd, Black Lives, Government Lies, University of New South Wales Press, 2000, pp 63, pb $12.95. Prue Torney‐Parlicki, Somewhere in Asia: War, Journalism, and Australia's Neighbours 1941‐75, University of New South Wales Press, 2000, pp 305, pb $37.95. Peter Botsman and Mark Latham (eds), The Enabling State, Pluto Press, Annandale, 2001, pp 288, pb $32.95. John Murphy, Imagining the Fifties: Private Sentiment and Political Culture in Menzies’ Australia, University of New South Wales Press, 2000, pp 250, pb $34.95 Dale Blair, Dinkum Diggers: An Australian Battalion at War, Melbourne University Press, 2001, pp 248, pb $34.95 Chris Cunneen, Conflict, Politics and Crime: Aboriginal Communities and the Police, Allen & Unwin, 2001, pb $35.00. Dennis Glover and Glenn Patmore (eds), For the People: Reclaiming Our Government, Sydney, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 248, pb $32.95. Duncan Kerr, Elect The Ambassador! Building Democracy in a Globalised World, Sydney, Pluto Press, 2001, pp 194, pb $32.95. Paul de Serville, Rolf Boldrewood: A Life, Miegunyah Press, 2000, pp 432 + 16, hb $65.95. Alan Powell, Far Country: A Short History of the Northern Territory (fourth edition), Melbourne University Press, 2000, pp 312, hb $43.95. Bennett, Tegan, What Falls Away, Allen & Umwin, 2001, pp 164, pb $18.95. Anna Maria Dell'oso, Songs of the Suitcase, HarperCollins, 1998, pp 368, pb $.20.85. Susan Addison, Mother Lode: Stories of Home Life and Home Death, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2001, pp 314, hb $29.95. Neil Finn, Love This Life: Lyrics 1978— 2001, Allen & Unwin, 2001, pp 223, hb $27.95. Laurie Duggan, Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture 1901‐1939, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2001, pb $22.95. Manning Clark, The Ideal of Alexis de Tocqueville, Dymphna Clark, David Headon and John Williams (eds), Melbourne University Press in association with Manning Clark House, Carlton, 2000, pp 185, $34.95. Arabella Edge, The Company: The Story of a Murderer, Sydney, Picador by Pan Macmillan, 2000, pp 371, hb $21.00 Fred and Elizabeth Brenchley, Stoker's Submarine, Sydney, HarperCollins, 2001, pp 264, pb $29.95. Haig Patapan, Judging Democracy — the New Politics of the High Court of Australia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp 214, $39.95. Julie Carr, The Captive White Woman of Gipps Land: In Pursuit of the Legend, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2001, pp 309, pb $29.95.