{"product_id":"menzies-legacy","title":"Menzies Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublisher's description:\u003cbr\u003eWas Robert Menzies out of step with the swinging 1960s, or did he shape the profound changes that it wrought?\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMenzies led Australia for over half the decade, finally retiring in 1966 as our oldest prime minister. His reputation for stability and continuity appears opposed to everything we commonly associate with the 1960s. Yet he governed during a dynamic period marked by rising levels of homeownership, university education, opportunities for women, engagement with Asia, instantaneous communications, space exploration, international travel and trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThese years also saw the decline of bitter sectarian divisions, an evolving Australian identity and even the introduction of a new currency. Multitudinal transformations occurred against a backdrop of stormy geopolitical tensions, involving a presidential assassination, a clandestine war with Indonesia, the introduction of conscription and the commitment of a combat battalion to Vietnam.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAustralia would never be the same, but was this because of or despite Menzies? All these questions are explored in the last of a four-volume history of Menzies and his world, based on conferences convened by the Robert Menzies Institute at the University of Melbourne.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include Christopher Beer, Geoffrey Blainey, Frank Bongiorno, Nicholas Brown, Andrew Carr, Jennifer Clark, Selwyn Cornish, Gwilym Croucher, Peter Dean, Damien Freeman, David Furse-Roberts, Matilda Hatcher, John Hawkins, Anne Henderson, Sean Jacobs, David Lee, Tom Lewis, Stephen Loosley, Lucas McLennan, Lyndon Megarrity, Michael de Percy, Charles Richardson, Dean Smith, William Stoltz, James Waghorne, James Walter and Joshua Woodward.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Zachary Gorman\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Melbourne University Publishing\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePages: 384\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePublished: 10 February 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780522881905\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Shop at Old Parliament House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52083776979255,"sku":"9780522881905","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/9559\/0967\/files\/File-6625_medium_2cf5f989-9626-4f92-91dd-2dfb7b4139b8.png?v=1777962475","url":"https:\/\/shop.moadoph.gov.au\/products\/menzies-legacy","provider":"The Shop at Old Parliament House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}