{"product_id":"from-traveller-to-traitor-the-life-of-wilfred-burchett-paperback","title":"From Traveller to Traitor: The Life of Wilfred Burchett - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTom Heenan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eLondon Daily Express\u003c\/i\u003e, Burchett drifted to the left with the onset of the Cold War.\u003cbr\u003eDuring 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Traveller to Traitor\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Heenan\u003c\/b\u003e lectures in Contemporary Australia and Sport in Society at Monash University's National Centre for Australian Studies.\u003cbr\u003eTom has contributed to \u003ci\u003eOverland\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eAustralian Dictionary of Biography\u003c\/i\u003e, and has also written on the Irish socialist William Thomson and his relationship with the feminist Anna Doyle Wheeler. He is currently working on a history of the scientific management movement and a dynastic study of the Murdoch family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 370\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45964208570565,"sku":"9780522852295","price":56.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/dGHFyXdZ-I9780522852295.webp?v=1773618881","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/from-traveller-to-traitor-the-life-of-wilfred-burchett-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}