Nick Bryant

The Rise and Fall of Australia (eBook, ePUB)

How a great nation lost its way

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A terrific account of a great nation cursed by ordinary leaders' - George Megalogenis
'There's sharpness and insight in Bryant's book' - Sydney Morning Herald

Never before has Australia enjoyed such economic, commercial, diplomatic and cultural clout. Its recession-proof economy is the envy of the world. It's the planet's great lifestyle superpower. But its politics have never been so brutal, narrow and facile, as well as such a global laughing stock. A positive national story is at odds with a deeply unattractive Canberra story.

In The Rise and Fall of Australia, BBC correspondent and author Nick Bryant offers an outsider's take on the great paradox of modern-day Australian life: of how the country has gotten richer at a time when its politics have become impoverished.

In this thoroughly entertaining and thought-provoking book, dealing with politics, racism, sexism, culture, sport and the nation's place in the region and the world, Bryant sets out to describe the new Australia rather than the mythic country so often misunderstood not just by foreigners but also by Australians themselves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Australia
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857983794
• Artikelnr.: 41345120

Autorenporträt

During a career spanning almost thirty years, Nick Bryant came to be regarded as one of the BBC's finest foreign correspondents and was described as 'the new Alistair Cooke'. He has been posted in Washington, South Asia, Australia and, most recently, New York, where he covered the Trump years. His writing has appeared in The Economist, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Monthly and The New Statesman. He broadcasts regularly on the BBC and ABC. Nick studied history at Cambridge and has a doctorate in American politics from Oxford. He now lives in Sydney with his wife and children. His book, When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present, currently resides on Joe Biden's bookshelf in the Oval Office.