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Ryan Cropp: Donald Horne. A Life in the Lucky Country
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Ryan Cropp shares with Gabriella the multiplicity of choices he made while writing Donald Horne. A Life in the Lucky Country, the biography of Donald Horne, a prominent and outspoken Australian journalist, writer, public intellectual and social critic.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
Why Ryan Cropp felt compelled to write a biography of Donald Horne.
The meaning behind the second part of the book’s title: A Life in the Lucky Country.
Why Ryan opens the biography with a close up view of Horne sitting on a Sydney bus looking out the…
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