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A Hundred Thousand Welcomes
This book traces the history of the Queensland Irish Association, one of the most successful ethnic organisations in Australia. Founded in 1898, it reacted against the divisive religious history of Ireland, enshrining denominational tolerance as a foundational principle. It was an engine of integration, melding evolving Irishness with primary loyalty to Australia. Remarkably resilient, it navigated wars, rebellion in Ireland, economic upheavals, and internal disruptions. The QIA celebrates its 125th anniversary in 2023, continuing as the chief custodian of Irish heritage and culture in Queensland. The makers of this history were past and present QIA members and officials. Sources included Association records and a rich heritage collection, photographs, and reminiscences.
On Nixon's Madness
"Beginning with Nixon's Red-baiting performances as a congressman on the House Un-American Activities Committee, Jacobson details Nixon's repeated reinventions, which were always, but not only, in service to his political goals. Nixon, he argues, must be understood as a person caught between forces of temper and control, protean in a way that makes his whole legacy difficult to assess"--
Delphi Complete Works of John O’Hara (Illustrated)
One of America’s most prolific writers of short stories, John O’Hara helped develop ‘The New Yorker’ magazine story style. His large body of works represent a sprawling social history of upwardly mobile Americans from the 1920s through to the 1960s. A best-selling novelist by the age of thirty, he penned such modern masterpieces as ‘Appointment in Samarra’ and ‘BUtterfield 8’. His work won the admiration of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Updike. Today, he is recognised by many as one of the most under-appreciated American writers of the twentieth century. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents O’Hara’s complete fictional works, with ...
