Menzies' Cold War: A Reinterpretation

Analysis of the Cold War period and its effect on Australia socially, economically and politically.

Examines, in particular, the Menzies government in the first half of the 1950s and its creation of a 'national security state' opposed to communism and devoted to creating a new era of capitalism at the expense of labour.

Includes notes. Author is a former Associate Professor of History at the University of Canberra.