BOOK REVIEW Admired historian dares his memory*




BEFORE I FORGET: An Early Memoir
by Geoffrey Blainey
Hamish Hamilton, Melbourne Hardcover: 352 pages Price: AUD$45
Reviewed by Jeffry Babb
Some participants in the Culture Wars behave as if they had survived the Battle of the Somme. Geoffrey Blainey has few illusions about his work, but he is a great deal harder on himself than his many readers would be.
Geoffrey Blainey is one of the most influential and admired historians of his era, and one of the mo…

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