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A Short Biography of Professor Donald Richmond Horne

Author Name:

Professor Donald Richmond Horne

Born As:

Donald Richmond Horne

Other Names:

Professor Donald Horne

Born:

26 Dec 1921

Died:

8 Sep 2005




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Writer. Academic and Journalist                          
Selected Works:

Dying: A Memoir - with wife, Myfanwy Horne -  2007
10 Steps to a more Tolerant Australia - 2003
Looking for Leadership: Australia in the Howard Years -  2001
Billy Hughes - 2000
An Interrupted Life, - 1998
Ideas for a Nation - 1989
The Education of Young Donald - 1988
Portrait of an Optimist - 1988
The Arts and the Australian Economy - 1985
Confessions of a New Boy - 1985
How to be an Intellectual - 1985
The Great Museum: The Re-presentation of History - 1984
Winner Take All -  1981
Right Way - Don't Go Back - 1978
Money Made Us - 1976
Death of the Lucky Country - 1976
The Australian People: Biography of a Nation - 1973
God is an Englishman - 1969
The Permit - 1965
The Lucky Country: Australia in the Sixties - 1964.                          
Wife Myfanwy Horne, two children.                          
Named as one of Australia's Living National Treasures by the National Trust.                          
Best known work was The Lucky Country - 1964, an evaluation of Australian society that questioned many traditional attitudes: Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck.