{"title":"Australian Biographical Monograph","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"stanley-melbourne-bruce-book-david-lee-9781923224810","title":"Stanley Melbourne Bruce","description":"This Biographical Monograph focuses on the formative years and political career of Stanley Melbourne Bruce to his defeat as Prime Minister in 1929. This period included winning a hotly contested by-election in Flinders in 1918, which brought with it the introduction of preferential voting; a short interlude on the back bench; one year as Treasurer in 1922-23; and then a period as Prime Minister from February 1923 until October 1929, when he was still in his forties. Bruce's career after 1929 was in many ways as distinguished as the period from 1918 to 1929. Notable in this second career after 1929 was his support for institutions such as the League of Nations and the Food and Agriculture Organization. The argument of this book is that the theme that connects Bruce's first period in Australian politics from 1918 until 1929 with his later career is that of institution building. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Lee is Associate Professor in History, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra. He was General Editor of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Documents on Australian Foreign Policy series from 1997 to 2019. His publications on political, diplomatic, economic and strategic aspects of Australian history include Australia and the World in the Twentieth Century (2005), Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Australian Internationalist (2010) and The Second Rush: Mining and the Transformation of Australia (2016).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53187536355601,"sku":"NIN9781923224810","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781923224810.jpg?v=1772392910"},{"product_id":"james-scullin-book-michael-easson-9781923224537","title":"James Scullin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne man's fight for the ballot reveals the sacrifices of those who shaped the civil rights movement in the American South\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn August 13, 1946, George Elmore arrived at his regular polling place in Columbia, South Carolina. He requested a ballot to vote in the Democratic Party primary but was turned away. While the general election would not occur until November, everyone in South Carolina understood that the results of the election would really be decided on that late summer afternoon. South Carolina was a one-party state, and the segregationist Democratic Party had endured as the uncontested rulers of state politics since the end of political Reconstruction in the late 1870s. No Black man or woman had cast a meaningful ballot in South Carolina in nearly as long. For Elmore and others in the state, the day had come to reclaim this most precious American right. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarolyn Click's\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eThe Cost of the Vote\u003c\/i\u003e centers on Elmore and the activists and lawyers who successfully challenged the all-white primary in South Carolina. Although Elmore's court challenge would prove successful, he paid a steep personal price. He died a decade after the case, ruined financially. His family was scattered because of the hostility provoked by his activism. The political rewards for Black voters also remained long in coming, and Elmore would not survive to see the full flowering of the 1960s voting rights movement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cost of the Vote\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a man who believed, with uncommon boldness, that he and other Black Americans were guaranteed the right to vote.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53187536716049,"sku":"NIN9781923224537","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781923224537.jpg?v=1772392912"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/australian-biographical-monograph-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}