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From Traveller to Traitor : The Life of Wilfred Burchett by Tom Heenan (2006, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMelbourne University Publishing

ISBN-100522852297

ISBN-139780522852295

eBay Product ID (ePID)63522450

Product Key Features

Number of Pages370 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFrom Traveller to Traitor : the Life of Wilfred Burchett

Publication Year2006

SubjectEditors, Journalists, Publishers, Journalism, General

TypeTextbook

AuthorTom Heenan

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal070.433092

SynopsisThe radical journalist Wilfred Burchett (1911-1983) was persecuted by the Australian government during his lifetime and publicly reviled in print long after his death. After a distinguished wartime career with the London Daily Express , Burchett drifted to the left with the onset of the Cold War. During the Korean and Vietnam wars he was condemned as a traitor for his pro-Communist reports, and denied an Australian passport by successive Liberal governments of the 1950s and 1960s. From Traveller to Traitor is the first scholarly biography of this controversial foreign correspondent. Tom Heenan explores the truth behind Burchett's reports from his travels on the other side of the ideological divide. Using ASIO files from the 1950s to the 1970s, and other archival material, Heenan exposes the insubstantial nature of the allegations of treachery made against Burchett. This book casts valuable new light on an extraordinary Australian whose story is one of the greatest political scandals in the nation's history.