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Article: Blainey, Geoffrey: A Short History of the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
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Blainey, Geoffrey
A Short History of the Twentieth Century
Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
384 pp., $16.95, ISBN 978-1-5666-3793-0
Publication Date: September 2008 (orig. pub. 2006)
As one of Australia's most prominent and prolific historians, whose literary and academic achievements include some thirty books, Geoffrey Blainey needs little introduction. He does merit mention, however, as a public intellectual whose controversial political comments on contemporary social issues have garnered him disparaging and even vicious criticism. The work under review here, though, is not likely to generate much controversy; it is an ...